[maemo-community] Call for testers: preferential election

[From: Tim]

> The principle of preferential voting is that you vote for as many of the
> candidates as you want to...

I didn't get this, so instructions would be helpful. :)

T.



On Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:05:40 +0100, Dave Neary <dneary at maemo.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Tim wrote:
>> There's nothing to indicate whether I should just choose 'some' of the
>> characters or 'all' of them. Could you add text to suggest choosing all,
>> but that it's not required? (Unless I missed that somewhere.) Or, make
>> 'all' a requirement and add an error if 'all' aren't chosen. (I'd prefer
>> the first method.)
> 
> OK.
> 
> The principle of preferential voting is that you vote for as many of the
> candidates as you want to (including 0, if you want). You stop whenever
> you want, be it at #1 or #12. There is really no need to give a
> preference to everyone.
> 
>> It would be nice if, on the confirmation page (3/4), there was a 'back'
>> or
>> 'change votes' button... Or instructions that the user can click their
>> browser's Back button (if that is, in fact, possible -- I didn't try).
> 
> Yup, the back button is the way to do it. I will say so explicitly.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave.

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