[cab-discuss] Draft ballot?

[John Plocher]

Stephen Hahn wrote:
>   By the way, I wasn't planning on placing a directly cut-and-paste'able

Fine - my concern magically evaporated :-)


>   form in the ballot--the example would be invalid for the election
>   (like numbers starting with 100, or somesuch).  The prompt could be a
>   request for an entire list, or we could do something like

Is there an existing example site to play with?  This sounds
a lot like the "select your locale" sysid cruft that install
uses :-), and forces a rather stilted user interface, not to
mention the incorrect prioritization baggage that ordered lists
of numbers bring along .

I'd rather see two parallel columns of
names, with controls to move nominees on
and off the ballot, as well as ordering the
candidates once on the ballot:


+----------------+        +--------+
| Nominees table |        | Ballot |
+----------------+        +--------+
| J Jones        |  =>    |        |
| L Lewis        |  <=    |        |
| M Marks        |  ^     |        |
| N Noyes        |  v     |        |
| Z Zelda        |        |        |
+----------------+        +--------+

Of course this requires website UI work,
but since Sun ships web toolkit software
that does this in NetBeans and other places,
it should not be too difficult.

If the nominee table allowed the user to
search, as well as sort by name, by email,
and/or by community[1], so much the better.

----
[1] I presume nominees, being community
members, can easily be associated with
the names of the communities they are
from...

> 
> 	1 - J. Jones (jjones)
> 	...
> 
> 	Ballot so far [ssmith ...].  Next selection (enter x when
> 	complete):


In this case, I'd alphabetize the list /IF/ there were more than a dozen
or so nominees (I dread trying to find your name in a randomized list
of 200 people :-)

Alternatively, is there a way to ensure that each voter gets
a different random ordering of candidates?

   -John