Rank, in order of preference, as many or as few candidates as you want to.
Any information about who voted is immediately deleted. No one knows who voted, and there is no record of who voted.
In fact, no record is kept of what rankings were voted, and no one at any point has access to that information.
Because there are so many candidates, feel free to not rank anyone or anything that you don’t like.
If you want to check the results, click on “Results” at the bottom of this page. If you do, then, at the upper-right of the “Results” page, select MAM as the Condorcet completion method…because MAM is the designated count method.
Then you’ll be shown the results according to the MAM count. Often or usually, it won’t matter much or at all which Condorcet completion method is used.
By the way, if you want our “real” elections to be legitimate and real, then you have to demand and get transparent verifiable vote-counting.
I have complete confidence in the automated count here at CIVS, but public political elections, in which those running things have so much at stake, so much count-fraud motivation, require transparent verifiable vote-counting.
Public political elections without verifiable vote-counting are illegitimate elections.
I call your attention to the drastic differences between the results of non-media polls such as these, as opposed to our “real” elections and mass-media polls.
The most important, interesting and enjoyable part of voting is looking at the various parties’ platforms. That’s how you find out, from them, what they offer. To get to a Democracy Chronicles page that links to many party-platforms, click on one of the following links: https://democracychronicles.org/third-party-central/ or Click here (I haven’t linked from here before, so I’m trying both methods. If neither link works, then manually type-in the above URL.) Later, repeated use of the “back arrow” at the screen’s upper left, should return you here to vote.
So, Rank in order of preference as many or as few candidates as you want to:
Only the single favorite choice will win the poll.
The poll ends December 2019.
If you have already voted, you may see the current poll results.
Markus Schulze says
Why are so many candidates missing? (e.g. Lawrence Lessig, John Kasich, Ben Carson, Jeb Bush, Martin O’Malley)
Why is Bernie Sanders not listed as a Democratic candidate?
Michael Ossipof says
Markus Schulze asked:
Why are so many candidates missing?
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I listed 23 candidates. It would have been impractical to list more. An excessively long candidate-list would discourage people from voting.
I wanted a variety of political parties, across the spectrum. I listed candidates of 19 political parties. I favored the Democrat and Republican parties by listing several of their candidates, instead of just one.
Markus continued:
(e.g. Lawrence Lessig, John Kasich, Ben Carson, Jeb Bush, Martin O’Malley)
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Other than the fact that I hadn’t heard any of the other than Jeb Bush?
Why didn’t I list Jeb Bush? Because it would be infeasible to list all of the Republican candidates, and there was no obligation to do so. Wanting to list several Democrats and several Republicans, I listed those that seem the most popular, judging that as best I could.
As for the other candidates that Markus listed, I haven’t heard of them. Can we assume that they’re all Democrats and Republicans? As I said, I favored the Democrats and Republicans by listing several of their candidates instead of just one, but no, it wouldn’t be feasible, or necessary, to list all of them in this multi-party poll.
Markus continued:
Why is Bernie Sanders not listed as a Democratic candidate?
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In fairness to the Democrats, I wanted to list, for them, candidates who are genuine Democrats. Though Bernie was running for the Democrat nomination, he isn’t a Democrat. That’s a good thing about him. That’s why he was worth voting for, because he isn’t a Democrat.
So:
1. In fairness to the Democrats, I wanted to list, for them, candidates who are genuinely Democrats, with all the bought-ness and corruption that goes with that. Not being bought or corrupt, Bernie doesn’t qualify as a genuine Democrat candidate.
2. I didn’t want to insult Bernie by mis-characterizing him as a Democrat.
G. William Domhoff suggested that progressives could and should use the Democrat primary as part of a 2-stage Runoff election. That might be what Bernie was doing. I’m not rude enough to call him a Democrat for that.
Michael Ossipoff