Probably the most-asked question about VotePact is the question of trust. How can you trust someone you’ve met on the internet? Well, we’re using the internet to spread this idea, have set up a FaceBook page and such, but we’re not really suggesting that people meet on the internet. We want people to deal with […]
Evidence of a Trapped Electorate
I’ve been talking to several polling experts, especially sharing my “Why Public Opinion Polls Aren’t” piece. Charles H. Franklin at the University of Wisconsin sent me some interesting polls, especially this one: FOX News/Opinion Dynamics Poll [June, 2007] Would you consider voting for a presidential candidate you like who is a third party independent candidate? […]
Why Public Opinion Polls Aren’t
[A shorter version of this piece was originally published by the Dallas Morning News on September 27, 2004.] With all the discussion of polls and the presidential race it may be hard to believe, but I have yet to see a single poll asking whom people want to be president. Virtually every poll has a […]
The Trapped Electorate
I’ve been talking to several polling experts. Charles H. Franklin University of Wisconsin when we first talked said that he thought that he’d seen some IRV polls for the presidential race. I told him I’d be most interested to see them. He looked around, couldn’t find them, so apparently no IRV polls have been done. […]
Introducing an IRV Presidential Poll
You’d think that if Barack Obama and John McCain backed something, it would dominate the political landscape. But both have spoken out in reforming our voting system to include instant runoff voting, whereby voters rank candidates 1-2-3 rather than only voting for one candidate. And while IRV is making some headway, as documented by the […]
Could Google Using IRV Revolutionize Polling?
Bo Considering all the polling and all the reporting on polling, it’s remarkable that no poll is asking people who they want to be president. Both Obama and McCain have backed IRV voting. As a state Senator in Illinois during the 2002 session, Obama introduced SB 1789 which would have adopted instant runoff voting for […]
Review of Gaming the Vote
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Supporting this idea with web apps
Would a page framing the possibilities for technical collaboration be useful? Have the ability to develop an a web application we could host? Have the ability to develop and host a web application we could point to (we’d consider setting up your-app-name.votepact.org, for example)? Similarly, an application that also integrated with Facebook, or a Facebook […]
VoteBuddy
We want to work with other groups. VoteBuddy came up with basically the same idea and some people think the name is friendlier. There’s some interesting text and images on their page. It was set up by Kent Van Cleave.