On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Brianna Laugher wrote: Wondering, does the software allow those who have voted to change their minds?
Ok, I see that I misunderstood the post, it was not directed at me, but here is my attempt to answer this question anyway.
Right now I am using the google docs form feature to host polls, it is very good, and if people want to change their vote, they just vote again. The results are stored on a spreadsheet.
This could be emulated with a wiki.
I think the basic function would be some form of poll where people would edit a page and sign it with a template. various templates could be used, you would just need a bean counter-parser to interpret it.
security is another issue, but the entire counting, limitation and delegation could be implemented as an ever more complex bean counter process. Basically it would be a talk page with special restrictions.
Changing their minds would just be voting again, and the bean counter process would come up with a different sum.
I hope this idea is understandable and simple.