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Voting method

Voters slide every option between strongly disapprove and strongly approve. The option with the most net support wins.

Ballot

Number of winners

options will win

For example, 12 books for a year of book club. The options with the most overall support win, in order.

How influence is spent

Quadratic Recommended Strong opinions cost more, so voters share how they feel about every option instead of piling everything onto one favorite. Based on quadratic voting, by economists E. Glen Weyl and Steven P. Lalley. Linear Every point costs the same. Voters can put all their influence on a single option.

Influence per voter

influence each Unlimited Every slider moves freely, with no budget.

100 is a good start: one option pushed all the way, or several pushed part of the way.

About the maths

The mathematically grounded way to make your opinions count.

Your ballot is a vector. Each option is a direction, and each slider is how far your ballot points that way.
Influence limits the vector's length. With quadratic cost, every score squared and added up can't exceed 100 × your influence: the Pythagorean theorem, in as many directions as there are options. You choose where your arrow points; your influence sets how long it can be.
Results add the vectors. Everyone's scores are summed, so the result is the group's combined vector: where the room points, and how strongly.

With two options and 100 influence, every ballot that spends it all ends on the circle: one option pushed all the way, or about 71 on each. Linear cost limits the "city-block" length instead (how far each slider moves, added up).

Quadratic cost is quadratic voting, developed by economists E. Glen Weyl and Steven P. Lalley. "Halfway costs 25, all the way costs 100" is the same maths in friendlier units.

Timing

Voting closes when

A time is reached A number of ballots is reached Whichever of those comes first I close it myself

Who can vote

Access

Anyone with the ballot link Personal one-time links for each voter Coming soon Signed-in voters on a roster Coming soon

Voters must enter their name You'll see a list of who voted. Whether anyone sees how they voted is set under Results & privacy. Voters can change their ballot until voting closes Turn off for one final ballot per voter.

Results & privacy

Show live standings while voting is still open Off is recommended: early standings can sway later voters.

Who can see individual ballots?

Secret Only the totals are shown. Nobody sees how anyone voted. Organizer only You can see each person's ballot when voting closes. Voters see only the totals. Everyone, when voting closes Everyone with the link sees each person's ballot alongside the results.

Anything other than Secret requires names, and voters are told before they vote. This can't be changed after the decision is created.

Wording

Rename the words voters see. Leave a box blank to keep the default.

Decision What the thing being voted on is called Option One choice Options Several choices Ballot One voter's submission Ballots Several submissions Cast your ballot The submit button Update your ballot The submit button when changing a ballot Strongly disapprove Far left of the sliders (Vector only) Neutral Middle of the sliders (Vector only) Strongly approve Far right of the sliders (Vector only) Influence What each voter spends (Vector only)