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CONDORCET INTERNET VOTING SERVICE

 * Create a poll
 * Activate user
 * Frequently Asked Questions
 * Join the CIVS mailing list
 * Security and privacy
 * Condorcet voting
 * Proportional representation
 * CIVS software
 * Acknowledgments
 * Suggestion box


 NEWS

 * CIVS has been used for more than 30,000 polls, with more than 600,000 votes
   cast.
 * It costs time and money to keep CIVS running as a free and ad-free service.
   Please consider donating to support it.


TOP PUBLIC POLLS: [SEE MORE]

 * 2024 Presidential Election
 * Blowout Basketball 2024 MVP voting
 * Most likely to win the 2024 presidential election
 * Majority vs. Relative Condorcet
 * Favorite Breaking Bad Character
 * 4 Voting Systems
 * Best Star Trek series
 * What is the best ice cream?
 * Favorite Star Wars Movie
 * Favorite series of Task Master

CIVS is a free Internet voting service that makes it easy to conduct polls that
are secure and anonymous. Each voter ranks a set of possible choices. Individual
voter rankings are combined into an anonymous overall ranking of the choices.
CIVS has been used for tens of thousands of polls and elections, to decide, for
example:

 * Officers of organizations
 * Meeting times
 * Members of committees
 * Project and domain names
 * Award recipients
 * Restaurants
 * Movies
 * Party menus
 * Book club selections
 * Favorite music
 * Gifts
 * Logos
 * Project directions
 * Invited speakers
 * Organization bylaws

How it works: Anyone may create a new CIVS poll, but only authorized voters will
know about it. Voters and the poll supervisor must have e-mail and web access.
When a poll is created, voters are e-mailed with a URL where they can vote.
Public polls may be created that do not require voters to have e-mail addresses;
in this case, one vote is allowed per IP address.

Why rank choices? With CIVS, voters rank their choices rather than just picking
their one favorite choice. This process gives accurate results because it
collects more information from voters. It also helps avoid vote splitting and
spoilers.

Ranked-choice voting is used in real elections. For example, Australia uses
Single Transferable Vote (STV, also known as IRV). However, CIVS is fairer than
IRV because it chooses a candidate who wins all head-to-head contests with other
candidates. In contrast, IRV can elect a candidate even though a majority of
voters would prefer someone else, and it has in real elections. Unlike most
other Condorcet systems, CIVS also has a proportional representation mode.

The Condorcet Internet Voting Service has been running since 2003. This service
is supported by Andrew Myers but is not a service offered by Cornell University.
This is CIVS version 2.27. Feedback, help, and donations to support this free
(and ad-free and tracker-free) service are welcome.

Fine print: This voting service is available for free, public use. All poll
content is the responsibility of poll creators. No guarantees can be made that
this service will be correct or available and under no conditions will the
authors or service providers, including Cornell University, be liable for any
damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data or profits, whether in an
action of contract, negligence or other tortious action, arising out of or in
connection with the use of this service.