I made a live presidential polling website with real-time electoral results. Votes can be changed at any time until the poll closes. Only visitors from the USA can participate. Congressional district is detected automatically.
The idea is to enable a coordinated voting process, where selections are non-binding and negotiable rather than blindly cast once. Kind of like a presidential caucus, but national and over the Internet.
The infra is Fastly & DigitalOcean. Backend is a Django service running on DO App Platform with Postgres. Fastly is used for edge logic, captcha, geo location, and pushing updates to the page (Fanout). In theory it should be able to handle millions of participants.
Note: since my previous post, I've added a way to close the poll after a time period. I realized that without some kind of time boxing it was unclear what the point is or how long to participate.
We know we don’t have representation, you don’t need to rub it in ;-)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-map-on-the-ballot-states...
Given his overall goal of not letting the Democrats win, this is a reasonable position for him to take. It is also reasonable for his supporters to vote for him, both to show their dissatisfaction with the other choices, but also because it sounds good for a future race if he were able to say e.g. “8% of people voted for me even though I dropped out”.
Assuming the desired outcome is actual democracy...
Sanders is a socialist who strives for a socialist society, not a liberal democracy. A quick stroll through history shows that where socialism takes hold democracy tends to suffer because those who oppose socialism are seen as "enemies of the people" or "enemies of the state" who should not be allowed to speak.
Having said that it is true that Sanders should have been the candidate for the "democratic" party in 2016 seeing how as he got the most votes but the '"democratic" national convention' had other ideas and shoved him aside in favour of Hillary 'we came, we saw, he died' Clinton just like they shoved aside their single permitted candidate in 2024 to replace him with someone who never got elected to any position. Just like Trump took a wrecking ball to the Republican party it would be good for the "democratic" party if someone came in to do the same to them so that something new could rise from the rubble which hopefully aligns closer to the party's name. Until such a time I consider it improper to omit the quotes around the name, "democratic" party.
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I could have a made something that performs the same with with a blank page and Harris.jpeg
Wait... I think I mixed something up with rejoinder..
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