







A poll is a space, a ballot is an address, and read_self is the ballot screen: voters cast and change their own votes while no voter's client can read anyone else's.
Opinion | This Is What Will Ruin Public Opinion Polling for Good
Instead of navigating the obstacles to conduct polls with human respondents, pollsters are running A.I. simulations instead. Why?

Permissioned Data Shapes: Community-Moderated Content - Nick's Blog
A community can own spaces the way a person does: a club's members post to each other under a dedicated community DID, with a feed space for content, a moderation space for notes, a labels space for filtering, and a single app view as the only window into any of it.
BallotReady: Where you go before you vote
Your go-to source for nonpartisan election information. Register to vote, explore the entire ballot, find your polling place, and more, all in one place.

Permissioned Data Shapes: Notifications - Nick's Blog
A self-keyed space gives notifications a home you control: every app gets an append-only sink to write into, you pick the reader that turns them into pushes and emails, and allowing or revoking an app is an access control you already have.
Permissioned Data Shapes: Feeds - Nick's Blog
Public feed generators drink from a firehose that permissioned data never enters, so a feed that includes space content has to become a syncer, keep a live model of who can see what, and serve a different skeleton to every viewer.
Permissioned Data Shapes: Forums - Nick's Blog
A forum with public categories, private categories, and one set of record shapes across both: members own their posts, the forum owns the submission wrappers that admit them into categories, and moderators deactivate into tombstones instead of deleting.
Permissioned Data Diary 4: The Big Picture - Daniel's Leaflets
A special edition of the data diary that sketches out the rough shape of where we're heading.
Polls For ActivityPub Plugin — WordPress.com
This plugin works as an addon to the WordPress ActivityPub plugin. It brings lightweight polls to your WordPress site that reach the Fediverse. The polls are fully interoperable with platforms like Mastodon.
Permissioned Data Diary 5: What’s in a Name? - Daniel's Leaflets
In this permissioned data diary, we dive deep into the URI structure for permissioned data on atproto and use it to motivate a bunch of the larger design.
Permissioned Data Diary 5: What’s in a Name? - Daniel's Leaflets
In this permissioned data diary, we dive deep into the URI structure for permissioned data on atproto and use it to motivate a bunch of the larger design.
The Twilight of the Polls? A Review of Trends in Polling Accuracy and the Causes of Polling Misses
Polls have had a number of high-profile misses in recent elections. We review the current polling environment, the performance of polls in a historical context, the mechanisms of polling error, and the causes of several recent misses in Britain and the US. Contrary to conventional wisdom, polling errors have been constant over time, although the level of error has always been substantially beyond that implied by stated margins of error. Generally, there is little evidence that voters lying about their vote intention (so-called ‘shy’ voters) is a substantial cause of polling error. Instead, polling errors have most commonly resulted from problems with representative samples and weighting, undecided voters breaking in one direction, and to a lesser extent late swings and turnout models. We conclude with a discussion of future directions for polling both in terms of fixing the problems identified and new approaches to understanding public opinion.

Permissioned data by dholms · Pull Request #94 · bluesky-social/proposals
This is an initial proposal for permissioned data. Details, terminology, and behaviors are all likely to change. For a friendly introduction to the protocol, check my my Leaflets. For discussion, f...
make a poll ! collect anonymous votes. post automatically to bluesky. no login needed for voters. poll.brookie.blog
Fifth shape in the atproto permissioned data series: polls. The member list is the electorate, your PDS holds only your own ballot, a vote's record key mirrors the poll's, and a leaked ballot proves nothing because permissioned commits are deniable.
Permissioned Data Shapes: Polls
ngerakines.leaflet.pub