# Elections Plugin **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/elections-plugin/68521 **Category:** Plugin **Tags:** broken **Created:** [August 22, 2017, 9:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/elections-plugin/68521 "2017-08-22T09:13:06Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 52
### Author: ![angus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/angus/32/341715_2.png) [@angus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/angus) #### Post date: [September 24, 2017, 11:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/elections-plugin/68521/52 "2017-09-24T11:44:15Z")
When I initially wrote that I was slightly hung-over and hadn’t thought it through 🙂 On reflection, I do think it would be a bit complex to implement a 100% secret ‘no admin can figure out your vote through db queries’ changeable-vote poll. But, as suggested, I think this is the wrong focus for two reasons. 1. I’m not sure that the fact that there is a record of voter’s actual votes somewhere invalidates the secrecy of the ballot. There are many instances in real-world elections when it is _possible_ for an election administrator to undermine the election. Ballot boxes can be stuffed, votes can be changed after the fact, cameras can be installed in voting booths, voters can be intimidated… Such things can and do happen in real world elections. What makes a valid election is not the _impossibility_ of these things occurring, but them not occurring in fact. Making a completely incorruptible system would be ideal, but it’s not necessary to make the process valid. A simple solution is for the administrators to simply refrain from querying the db. Like election administrators in real life elections refrain from changing votes. 2. I do think that the default for any Poll (election or otherwise) should be one vote per user per poll. This goes to the reason why almost all polls (election or otherwise) in real life are conducted within a short window of time: as far as possible, all votes are cast within the same factual context. If the changes in factual context are not taken into account a poll (any poll) is pretty meaningless, as it’s not constituted with similarly situated choices. Will I work on submitting PRs for hidden results and single vote polls to the polls plugin? Maybe 🙂 I’ll see what my schedule is like next week… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/elections-plugin/68521)._