It really depends on what type of voting (polling) you are trying to conduct and there are different types of polling such as not only political but social, product saftey, environmental, consumer, religious ect that can be done with polling software which you can download from the net and do any type of polling that you wish to conduct.
Google on the words "polling software" or "Survey Software" and you'll get many hits and URLs that will point you to them. But there are some important issues that must be addressed and that is what type of data are you farming (polling for analysis) and how do you intend to use that data? The people that you intend to poll must be notified and well informed about the type of poll and how are you conducting it by either random sample, scientific or non-scientific poll. They must be informed about how you'll guard their privacy rights to data and to ensure its correctness and see to it that it doesn't get sold to some company (which now a days is virtually impossible to do but legislation is pending in congress right now to try prevent this from happening) her this data will most likely sell it others for a big fee without your permission. I've read in the Outlook section of the washington Post a few days back that data brokerage firms like doubleclick and ChoicePoint for instance; have the legal right to sell your personal data to anyone it wants to with or without your promission and the data is their property since they host and brought that data from some other data brokerage. They see all of your personal data as a valuable commodity to them. I know this sounds cold but that's how they see it from their point of view. Data brokerages can buy and sell their rights to buy and or sell your data to any data brokerage or ad agency and their is nothing that anyone can do about this right now unless Congress and the US Supreme Court have their way in reguards to this issue of personal data privacy. Did you know that Diebold the manufacturer of electronic voting machines is in fact another data broker that supports the GOP and that they have the right to sell your personal data like names and addresses to political and other organizations for mass mailings and solicitations? As I've read in the newspapar unfortunately yes they have a legal right to do so. I for one find this to be going too far in the wrong direction in direct violation of people's privacy rights. This above all is a serious breech of bounds and should not be tolerated at all! Here are some interesting links on the issue of privacy rights and data being sold by companies like ChoicePoint as a commodity: >From the WashingtonPost.com Security Concerns Boosted VeriSign's Dot-Net Bid http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62302-2005Apr18.html Clicking To Steal http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58268-2005Apr16.html Consumers Not Told Of Security Breaches, Data Brokers Admit http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51722-2005Apr13.html LexisNexis Data Breach Bigger Than Estimated http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45756-2005Apr12.html States Scramble To Protect Data http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38498-2005Apr8.html Marc Sims Technician I Technology Services Prince George's Community College 301 Largo Rd. Largo, MD 20774-2199 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about problems: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unofficial Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://winhome.wavijo.com/
