Indablog

Overall, the response by the candidates to the 10Questions experiment was shameful. Only Mike Huckabee, to his everlasting credit, responded right away. Beyond that, only Edwards, Gravel, and Obama (via clips form campaign questions) answered by the deadline. No others responded, despite 3 reminders (!) on the Op-Ed page of the New York Times! If that isn’t a slap in the face to one of the noblest experiments yet tried in American democracy, I don’t know what is. So be it. If 10Questions didn’t catch on, with all the resources they had, then the near silence that greeted the Indaba/ChoiceRanker experiment is that much easier to understand. I still think that 10Questions was on the right track. I’ll reserve my critique for another blog entry. For now, this one will serve as a link for ballots that I’m creating which will allow voters to rank the various 10Questions answers. For any one interested who reads this… If you want to respond, you’ll need to create a distinct user_ID here, even if you’ve already got one at ChoiceRanker.com. The sites may look pretty much the same, but they’re not completely integrated.

Filed under: Development Chronicles, Indaba Polls, Instant Runoff Voting, Musings