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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.

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.

sabreW4K3 ,
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Just a heads up. I got everyone in my house to vote and its only showing one ballot cast

manicdave OP , (edited )

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.

sabreW4K3 ,
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Thanks for the info

sabreW4K3 ,
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Off-topic: why .co.uk rather than .uk?

manicdave OP ,

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

sabreW4K3 ,
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Fair

mannycalavera ,
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Why .uk rather than .co.uk?

sabreW4K3 ,
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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.

mannycalavera ,
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Oh right… I dunno. Same, I’ve never had to ask 🤭.

christophski ,

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 ,
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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.

Hossenfeffer ,
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Needs more data, but good work!

Zachariah ,
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https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/52adeb0d-066d-448b-9d67-434d5b5687f4.jpeg

Hossenfeffer ,
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Data. And. Cowbell.

Zachariah ,
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https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/786ab94c-f02e-4fd0-ad1f-18c895c5ccde.jpeg

AtHeartEngineer ,
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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 OP ,

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 ,
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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)

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