Show HN: Who Should Be the President?
ileantoward.com
ileantoward.com
I made a presidential polling website with real-time electoral results. It requires semi-live participation and votes can be changed at any time. Only visitors from the USA can participate. Congressional district is determined by IP address.
The idea is to enable a coordinated voting process, where selections are non-binding and negotiable rather than blindly cast once. Kind of like a presidential caucus, but national and over the Internet.
The infra is Fastly & DigitalOcean. Backend is a Django service running on DO App Platform with Postgres. Fastly is used for edge logic, captcha, and pushing updates to the page (Fanout). In theory it should be able to handle millions of participants.
As far as this poll goes, it's a self-selected sample, which has its own problems.
Not just 20somethings. I'm in my 50s and lots of people in my general age group also refuse to answer the phone when an unknown caller calls.
Even fewer will consent to taking part in a poll even when they do answer the call, in large part because so many of those calls are push polls and other political marketing rather than real polls. That means they're no different than other scam spam calls.