This project got started during the close race for the 2000 presidency. I felt the public was showing rather little preference for either major party candidate. I'd had an interest in alternative election systems for a while and decided to take the opportunity to do something. I put together a prototype of this application based on Rob Lanphier's code extended with some Javascript and Perl that didn't work very well. I was running short on time and got a friend to help with this application. He got the application truly working for the first time and I advertised the presidential poll on the Internet.

There were some interesting results from the 2000 poll: if Condorcet voting had been used, Ralph Nader would possibly have been elected in 2000. Neither of the major party candidates ran well in a two way race against Nader. I would have suspected sample bias, but the election results were otherwise close to the results we saw in the actual election, so it is plausible there isn't much sample bias here. I've seen specialists in public affairs note that far more conservatives voted for Nader that was widely appreciate so these results are plausibly accurate.

The security of this implementation is limited-I would use this code for purposes of entertainment/education or situations where you are controlling by other means who has access to a web page.