SimpleVote is an open-source, self-hostable, live-updating voting/polling platform, for both live meetings, or extended polls.

Polls can be dynamic, meaning users can(if allowed) contribute options and questions themselves.

It uses range voting (also known as olympic score voting) for all your poll options. Range voting is more expressive than simple 👍 or 👎 votes (IE approval). It also beats out IRV, and first past the post for minimizing voter regret.

Features:

• Polls can have multiple questions.
• Anyone can edit, delete, or create additional questions, and options (if allowed by the creator), at anytime.
• Live chat on the sidebar.
• Questions can have expiration times, and thresholds (Making sure options with too few votes don't win).
• Easily shareable poll links.
• Image and markdown support for all questions and candidates.
• Questions can hide voter names (anonymous voting).
• Questions can be either Range, or Pointing Poker style.

Tech used:

• Java Spark, Bootstrap v4, Angular4, Angular-cli, ng2-bootstrap, ActiveJDBC, Liquibase, Postgres, Markdown-it, angular2-toaster

Check out a sample poll here.

Join the subreddit: /r/simplevote

Change log

If you want to self-host or help develop simplevote.

• Java 8 + Maven
• Node + npm/yarn, nvm is the preferred installation method.
• angular-cli: npm i -g @angular/cli@latest
• Postgres 9.3 or higher

git clone https://github.com/dessalines/simple-vote

Here are some instructions to get your DB up and running.

psql -c "create user simplevote with password 'asdf' superuser"
psql -c 'create database simplevote with owner simplevote;'

cd simplevote
vim service/pom.xml

Edit it to point to your own database:

<!--The Database location and login, here's a sample-->
<jdbc.url>jdbc:postgresql://127.0.0.1/simplevote</jdbc.url>
<jdbc.username>simplevote</jdbc.username>
<jdbc.password>asdf</jdbc.password

For local testing:

./install_dev.sh and goto http://localhost:4567/

For a production environment, edit ui/config/environment.prod.ts to point to your hostname, then run:

./install_prod.sh

You can redirect ports in linux to route from port 80 to this port:

sudo iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 4567

Have a bug or a feature request? If your issue isn't already listed, then open a new issue here.

• Set up travis-ci