I made a website that lets you use ranked choice voting in a mock UK General Election to explain how it works. (publicslate.co.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by manicdave@feddit.uk to c/casualuk@feddit.uk

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I don't know if this is too self-promotey to put in the more serious subs so I'm putting it here. I need to blag being able to do the django framework so I spent a week fannying about with it to make this. Feel free to mess about with it, give feedback or repost it on reddit or any other lemmy knock-offs.

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[-] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Needs more data, but good work!

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

[-] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

Data. And. Cowbell.

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

[-] AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

This is great, we need more of this. Now you just need TLSNotary for someone to be able to prove they have citizenship/are allowed to vote in that election.

[-] manicdave@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago

The first step in my mental roadmap for making this more than a toy is going to be user accounts and magic links, so small orgs can manually vet people for local party branches and meetings. I'll have to look into TLSNotary.

[-] AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Awesome, ya that's a reasonable path, if you want to skip the manual review, you could use TLSNotary or ZKEmail (proof of email) to verify/validate TLS sessions or emails (basically checks that the email was validly signed by the email server from a sender, and you can selectively reveal that the person for example, paid a utility bill in London)

[-] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 3 points 1 year ago

Off-topic: why .co.uk rather than .uk?

[-] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 7 points 1 year ago

Why .uk rather than .co.uk?

[-] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 5 points 1 year ago

Wasn't .co.uk originally meant to be for UK companies? And with .uk available, it's just easier to not have to type three superfluous characters.

But all in all, there's no correct answer. I was just curious, as it's the first chance I've had to ask someone that registered a new UK based tld recently.

[-] christophski@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago

I think by the time .UK was available, people were already totally used to .co.uk so it's still a bit jarring to use the new one

[-] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 2 points 1 year ago

Oh for sure. I don't even see any websites trying to switch or even purchasing the .UK versions.

It doesn't help that we have no words that end with uk.

[-] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

Oh right... I dunno. Same, I've never had to ask 🤭.

[-] manicdave@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

Good point. I kinda rushed it and didn't really think to check. Just bought it cause .uk is a better tld

[-] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 2 points 1 year ago

Fair

[-] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 3 points 1 year ago

Just a heads up. I got everyone in my house to vote and its only showing one ballot cast

[-] manicdave@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sorry about that. Only way I could think to stop spam was to use IP as unique id. Try disconnecting from WiFi.

Edit: if you've already voted, it overwrites that vote with the new one. This is just the quickest laziest way of stopping someone using a bot to skew the results.