Please rank the following ideas for improving the CIVS voting service. If you think an idea is bad, rank it below "do nothing ranked below this". You can also write in new ideas, but do check the list to see if your idea is already there. Your feedback is appreciated!

CIVS is an open-source project on GitHub, and you are also welcome to try implementing your ideas. If you're not happy with any of the language translations, please let us know by making a GitHub pull request or opening an issue there.

Note that some of these ideas have been partly or completely implemented. Voters can now change their votes; it's possible to send ballots only to non-voters; and there is more protection against ballot stuffing. Polls can now have multiple questions. Some ideas are impossible to implement without weakening the privacy protections of the system, like seeing the list of people who voted.

The poll ends in due course. The poll supervisor is Andrew Myers (andru@cs.cornell.edu). Contact the poll supervisor if you need help.

Only the 10 favorite choices will win.

Give each of the following choices a rank, where a smaller-numbered rank means that you prefer that choice more. For example, give your top choice the rank 1. Give choices the same rank if you have no preference between them. You do not have to use all the possible ranks. All choices initially have the lowest possible rank.

 Choice Rank
Provide poll setting to determine tallying method in advance. (No ambiguity afterwards.) (write-in)
Provide a link for the poll results on the "Poll Control" page.
Restrict to one rank per vote (no ties, so cannot select multiple candidates as #1)
Allow distributing ballots as individual QR codes (write-in)
Support SSL/TLS to protect against network adversaries (e.g., employers).
Optimize web page for small/mobile screens.
More detailed definition of CIVS RP (write-in)
Allow users to see a list of polls they are able to vote in after first activation of their address (write-in)
Allow null ranking, including the 'null choice' as a 'pseudo-candidate': a preference profile can look like A > ∅ > ∅ > B = C. (write-in)
Make the "Only X will win" optional. In some cases we just need a ranked list. (write-in)
Poll option to have an acceptability threshold pseudo-choice.
Automatic time-based closing of polls.
Allow long press to select as an alternative to shift-click (write-in)
Allow polls that can be repeated (e.g., for daily restaurant choice).
Switch to "radio buttons" when poll has only two choices.
Support https- and GPG-encrypted mail.
Improve the user interface for voting.
tsc (write-in)
Allow people to see how a poll is going before it closes.
Get rid of IP filtering for public polls, it stops two people from voting from behind the same NAT.
Allow user to manually switch language away from what browser preferences state. Some translations are impossible to understand.
Allow access to all previous closed polls. (write-in)
Limit the number of choice e.g., Select the top three candidates (write-in)
Allow supervisors to send private keys personally.
Support French (write-in)
Allow turning off any kind of verification and just let people vote multiple times (voter may be on the same network)
Option to show list of invited email addresses to voters, to prevent ballot stuffing.
Have a mandatory "non of the above" option. (write-in)
Make the default "no opinion" instead of last place, when "no opinion" is an option. (write-in)
Support more Condorcet completion algorithms.
Use "Additive" Ranked Ballot: counting the 1st choices & then is no-one has 50%, ADDING IN the next choices & so on till someone finally does. (write-in)
Allow some form of voter signature.
Support IRV elections.
Add support for STV multiple winner: Schulze, CPO, Meek, Warren.
Allow option to reveal list of people who voted, but without their ballots.
Do not publish email in plain text.
Add approval voting or contrast it with ranked choice on the inital page (write-in)
Add STAR Voting Method (write-in)
Allow removal of poll results by the administrator after poll closes
http://pascal.hoez.free.fr/azenv.php (write-in)
Support comparison with Simple Majority vote.
Have Punjabi as a Language of Choice for Gurdwara Elections (write-in)
Allow multiple questions per poll.
Allow write-in entries to be case-sensitive.
Allow poll supervisors to require an authorized GPG signature for each ballot, from a list of fingerprints. (write-in)
Make current results visible even before a poll is closed, even for private polls.
Make it clear during creation what can and can't be updated after poll is created (write-in)
Require a memory-hard proof of work for each ballot to avoid spam (write-in)
http://mafreeboxtv.fr/playlist.m3u (write-in)
Use Margin-Based methods as well as winning votes, as these are more fair methods. (write-in)
Allow option to only accept ballots with a strict complete ordering.
When adding a write-in, don't throw away my rankings so far.
Support sending results by email through the system.
Add the "Stable Voting" method. (write-in)
Allow the organiser to edit the poll before it is started.
Allow customizing the polls presented after finishing a vote (write-in)
In anonymous votes, optionally show which people voted already/not yet. This would allow poll supervisors to follow up with slow voters. (write-in)
Add option to re-send ballots ONLY to non-voters, to avoid spamming those who already voted.
Report raw Condorcet results without completion algorithms - Condorcet winners and groups of Smith/Schwartz sets
Allow definition of pop-up descriptions for each poll choice
Allow voters to edit their vote after the fact (in case of accidents) (write-in)
Add an option for private polls to be automatically closed when everyone has voted
Require a CAPTCHA for rank submissions and/or write-ins
Provide the option not adding "(write-in)" to the name of write-in candidates. (write-in)
In Condorcet-IRV, solve last place ties by counting 2nd last, etc.
Allow supervisor to change public poll so it is publicized on home page or make that the default for public polls
Add an option to make the poll supervisor's e-Mail private. (write-in)
Please add a possiblity in the email to mark that a poll is abusive/spam/fraud/harassing (write-in)
Support Russian.
See who has voted so far
Make IP-based voting ("Already voted") optional, for multiple voters on the same network (write-in)
Support Range Voting.
allow supervisors to add categories for poll (politics, films, novels, etc.) and allow sorting of polls on home page by category
Do nothing ranked below this
Allow changing your vote before the vote closes.
Implement single transferable vote (STV) (write-in)
Allow polls to be created with defined ranks and a custom default rank. (write-in)
Option to reveal who has already voted without displaying what they voted for (write-in)
Support Japanese.
Allow voter to check and revise vote, until vote is closed.
Show times with local timezone in election results.
Update process for opt-in to private polls. New 4/21 rule unclear and too many steps for participants. (write-in)
Support Dutch (write-in)
Allow the poll supervisor to edit features of the poll such as who can see the results.
Support Greek.
Elections where individuals vote with a variable number of admin-specified shares.
Election supervisor-defined text field for the beginning of system mail subject line.
Tie votes to something other than IP address for those with NAT addresses.
Single click to "resend emails to those who have not voted yet" (write-in)
Allow adding votes
Allow candidates to decline involvement in election, with result calculated using the reduced list.
allow donations in Bitcoin (write-in)
Make results universally verifiable.
Support Norwegian.
None of hyphen, en-dash, or em-dash worked for uploading files with no preference (write-in)
Be able to manually choose the language on the home page and the invitation email rather than automatically basing it on the user's browser preferences
Allow a candidate to be removed after the election has been started.
Add secondary interface in which 1v1 face-offs can be used instead of ranking the options
Existing votes should rank new write-ins as "No opinion", not last place.
Eliminate ballot quantity limitations for test polls. Will allow for weighted ballots.




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