Web Technology, Voting, Opinion Polls, Surveys and Questionnaires

W3C Open Government Community Group,


An interesting technology discussion topic occurred recently, pertinent to the number of and granularity of voting topics, elections and issues, on ballots.  The discussion topic was the number and granularity of voting topics on ballots, a multidisciplinary topic pertaining to psychology, sociology, anthropology, psephology, demography, psychometrics, ergonomics, linguistics and questionnaire construction.


Why do various districts vote on the numbers of topics that they do and topics at the granularity that they do?  How can technology, i.e. notes and decision support software, facilitate more well-informed, convenient and ergonomic voting, opinion polls, surveys and questionnaires with more numerous and granular topics at the neighborhood, city, county, state and federal levels?


Two technological ideas include: (1) mobile apps, pubsub, dynamic queries and syndication, (2) histograms and infographics showing, during campaign seasons, the number of journalism articles per neighborhood, city, county, state and federal voting topic.




Kind regards,


Adam Sobieski


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