The Free World Votes -- Everyone vote for President of the U.S.A

Posted October 7th, 2008 by jordie

Hey Everyone!

I've been working hard on a hobby website that I'd like to share with you all.

As an Australian, I obviously can't vote in the U.S. election, but I'm extremely interested in it (and a avid Ron Paul supporter). So I've created a website where everyone from every country can "vote" for President.

Check it out: http://www.thefreeworldvo...

In my poll I've made it as fair as possible, you can vote for Obama, McCain, Nader, Baldwin, Barr or McKinney. Once you've selected your candidate, you can choose an 'alternate' candidate for which you would have preferred to vote for, but can't now they've dropped out of the race.

At the moment Barack Obama is winning... I'm sure you guys will be keen to change that! Some good news so far, Ron Paul is the leading 'alternative' candidate!! (Check the quick stats on the left side of the map)

I'd also appreciate any comments and constructive criticisms.

BTW, if you could help me out a bit and digg it: http://digg.com/2008_us_e...

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Thanks for all the votes and

On October 7th, 2008 jordie says:

Thanks for all the votes and all the support! =D

Does any one feel this website

On October 7th, 2008 undofascism says:

is a wasted effort? I'm so sick of polls.

not at all

On October 7th, 2008 Jinc says:

a big part of what we believe in serves to restore our standing in the world community. Im encouraged when I see 2 votes for Baldwin in Etchasketchistan or wherever. They cant vote- but to me their support is appreciated.

Live Free or Diebold

This is Awsome. Thanks.

On October 7th, 2008 Ragnar D says:

Voting Statistics
Total Votes: 109 Total Countries: 14
Leading Candidate: Chuck Baldwin (45 votes)
Leading Alternate: Ron Paul (50 votes)

"Victory for liberty! That is our goal, and nothing less. -- Ron Paul, December 17, 2007"

hey - great site Jordie!

On October 7th, 2008 Jinc says:

Digg

Live Free or Diebold

yo!!

On October 6th, 2008 islandflyer says:

yer site is just like them all.

Almost IMPOSSIBLE to vote for an "un-annointed" candidate.

WTF???

make it EASIER!!!!!

I'm not sure what you

On October 7th, 2008 jordie says:

I'm not sure what you mean... If you can click on the big 'Vote' button at the top you can select from one of the 6 candidates from the top 6 parties. On the step after that you can select or write in the candidate you would have actually preferred.

I have a little notifying system that will tell me of any write-ins so I can add them to the predefined list for others to select in the future.

I think my site is actually a lot better than the others which typically only give you the option of 'mccain', 'obama' or 'other'.

I voted for Baldwin and Paul

On October 6th, 2008 throughtheblack says:

But Baldwin's vote count did not go up after I voted. (Canada). If you zoom in, there is one vote for Baldwin in Alberta and one in Manitoba. Zoom out and it shows a total of 1 vote for Baldwin in all of Canada. Diebold didn't help out with any of the coding did they? Maybe it's just not refreshing properly or something.

Me too. What other choice do we have?

On October 7th, 2008 Ragnar D says:

"Victory for liberty! That is our goal, and nothing less. -- Ron Paul, December 17, 2007"

Ditto

On October 7th, 2008 artistsforRP says:

as did I ....

I just voted as of 3am eastern

The vote tallies should

On October 7th, 2008 jordie says:

The vote tallies should update every 15 minutes -- I'll see what I can do about getting this to be more often (I just don't want to kill my server!).

From what I can see it has been updated now and on the world map it is showing 2 for Chuck.

don't know how you vote on that

On October 6th, 2008 true_believer says:

thing. I don't see any Ron Paul!

He’s in the “alternates” category.

On October 6th, 2008 treadwayca says:

--Cliff
Sioux City, Iowa

Hi Jordie,

On October 6th, 2008 FreedomRules says:

Just voted and left you a message regarding the Montana ballot which actually includes Ron Paul for the Constitution Party here. People have to write in Chuck Baldwin if they want to vote for him. (I voted Chuck on your poll but will probably vote Ron Paul on election day as I'm one of the few to have him on the ballot for real this year :-)

Freedom Rules!

gday jordie

On October 6th, 2008 dontspinme says:

just voted in california
missing my meat pies, fish and chips and right about now
I could really go a vanilla slice.

Well, that was a big waste of my time...

On October 6th, 2008 Habit4ming says:

I could not correctly type in the required data where you prove you're not a bot because I couldn't read it! And it would not change to something else like most sites do....the first letter was unreadable, looked like a needle or a splinter..it wasn't an l, it wasn't a t...who knows what it was!