{"id":456,"date":"2010-05-25T22:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T22:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=456"},"modified":"2010-05-25T22:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T22:38:00","slug":"instant-preference-voting-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=456","title":{"rendered":"Instant Preference Voting Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Make your own preferential voting races!  Use them to make decisions in groups, to keep track of personal priorities, to decide where to go to dinner with friends!  <a href=\"http:\/\/vote.existencia.org\/\">Try it out<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Preferential_voting\">Preferential voting<\/a> allows you to rank all possible candidates, and then applies an &#8220;instant run-off&#8221; scheme to get the final winner.  As a result, you can vote your actual preference, even if you don&#8217;t think the candidate has a good chance of winning.  Candidates are eliminated from the bottom, and when just two are left, the voting results accurately reflect how much each candidate would get in our normal &#8220;two party&#8221; voting system.<\/p>\n<p>Vote on <a href=\"http:\/\/vote.existencia.org\/vote\/6\">How I should improve the site next<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/vote.existencia.org\/results\/6\">See the results<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It will record your vote, based on your IP address, so you can go back and change it later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make your own preferential voting races! Use them to make decisions in groups, to keep track of personal priorities, to decide where to go to dinner with friends! Try it out! Preferential voting allows you to rank all possible candidates, and then applies an &#8220;instant run-off&#8221; scheme to get the final winner. As a result, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=456\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Instant Preference Voting Site<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}