Ask HN: How would you design a write-in POTUS picker site?
Why do this? I am a US citizen and I like solutions more than angry people. If we can find an objective approach together – let’s try. Update: we’ve acquired the www.potuswritein.com domain and can push an open-source or open-design site out if this works.
Latest goes here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EgZYBgu035yYfDpm4-aPm6vGkAS_iq-mNnVuaQ5B_ao/ . This is not a voting-booth alternative or an attempt to push any political agenda. This is just an over-designed public poll to get objective suggestions.
1.Only one submission per US Citizen. Options: - Only one vote per ip + browser + os - Request some piece of identification (a DL number + State; or a phone number + DOB + Place of Birth?;
2.Allow every voter to submit up to 10 different candidates in one submission. As results come in and get calculated, the site would visualize every scenario and be filterable (show first picks only, show people in most lists, etc).
3.Allow free-flowing text up to 100 words as to why they recommend each candidate. When you click on a candidate, you get to see all the WHYs as well.
4.After one round of voting produces a set of candidates, do we enable people to do a second round to narrow down the surfaced?
5.Once the voting is complete and results finalized all personal info will be deleted and voters will be replaced with unique ids.
6.If the site gets a denial-of-service attack or if rigging is suspected the site will share data about each incident the main page and/or another public account.
7.Any votes and processing will NOT be reported in real-time. Voters will get confirmation when votes are processed.
8.There will be a donation box for operational costs.