There’s a known problem with Internet Explorer 6.029.2180 (and probably some other versions) that’s giving me some grief. It even affects the blog post preview!
If you see the blog or the main site as a single column, rather than multiple columns displayed side by side, you know what I mean. I just tried one […]
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YouTube has several videos about Instant Runoff Voting (which many proponents also call Ranked Voting).
Here’s one that’s succinct and reasonably entertaining.
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It took a while to figure out that MySQL’s Query Browser doesn’t support doing a select on a temporary table created within the same query. It’s a known problem, having something to do with creating a new connection on the fly (thereby leaving the temp table session), but I don’t have the link right now.
In […]
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This blogsforbush.com sample poll is wonderfully easy to use and share, but has no authentication features. Unfortunately, ballot stuffing (freeping) got so bad on its most recent version that the site was temporarily shut down.
I’m pasting it to my blog for testing purposes only. Apparently all the polls at the host site resolve to […]
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I’m working to adapt the interactive ballot at Demochoice.org for the ranked voting part of this system. Things started well, but I’m still dealing with a dymanic javascript creation routine. For the time being it looks like that feature will add a lot of code to the published page. At some point down the line, […]
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I’ve got my first version of the database script uploaded into the test area, with a few tables, some data inserts for two elections, and a couple of views. The only hitch was that dreamhost had case sensititvity turned on, so my inserts didn’t work right off. If they had, I would have considered it […]
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