Default vote radiobutton to previous vote values
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	coren
	Nov 27 2009, 2:01 AM

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Usability request:

When a user gets a ballot after having voted already, the radiobuttons should default to the previous ballot's values.

This allows partial voting and changing a vote without having to memorize or reexamine all the candidates.

Requested at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee/Audit_Subcommittee/October_2009_election/SecurePoll_feedback_and_workshop where users of the extention during the 2009 AUSC elections on enwp commented on the process of voting.

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Severity: enhancement

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Reference: bz21654

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Mentioned Here: T22023: Use human-readable vote summary page

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coren created this task.Nov 27 2009, 2:01 AM

mhershberger wrote:

Unassigning default assignments. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/54734

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The problem with this, which may well make it a decline, is that the vast majority of (and arguably all) elections are encrypted. There is no way for us to decrypt the ballot (since the decryption key is not available to the software) to know the previous answers and therefore there is no way to prefill them.

Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Feb 4 2022, 12:24 PM

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jrbs moved this task from Backlog to Evaluated on the MediaWiki-extensions-SecurePoll board.Sep 23 2022, 10:48 PM

Evaluation:

Should be easy

In T23654#1496271, @Jalexander wrote:

The problem with this, which may well make it a decline, is that the vast majority of (and arguably all) elections are encrypted. There is no way for us to decrypt the ballot (since the decryption key is not available to the software) to know the previous answers and therefore there is no way to prefill them.

This could be possible with something like T22023: Use human-readable vote summary page

We might also be able to provide a "passcode" that could re-fill previous options? I'm not sure if it's a particularly elegant solution

RamzyM-WMF subscribed.Sep 13 2023, 5:38 PM

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