I developed this plug-in out of necessity while managing my neighborhood homeowner association (HOA). In past meetings of our HOA, achieving quorums were a wait-and-see ordeal. Will enough people show to the meeting? Will they bother to mail us their proxy vote? I had enough so I started to code a solution.
The result is a system that provides immediate feedback, a decent measure of security, and simple integration with Wordpress blogs. The first version I fielded worked great with our HOA website. Everyone in the community was given a customized paper explaining the process. That paper also provided a customized key, much like a business provides to its shareholders. The process is very simple: the voter goes to the website, enters his key, his name, the proxy’s name, then submits the information. That’s all there is to it!
The first version I tried had limited capabilities. I think the concept was solid but the feature list needed improving. After a few months of development I made the feature list grow, worked out the bugs, and polished the user interface. The result is a compelling product worthy of commercial distribution.
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