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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 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Needs more data, but good work!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Data. And. Cowbell.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months 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)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why .uk rather than .co.uk?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Fair

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Thanks for the info

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

This is great! It would be good to post it to uk_politics to get more numbers!