Home-made range voting applet

Last week, I decided to start on a project that I've been thinking about ever since I read this book review sometime during the early part of presidential campaign. It talked about how we could improve the elections by replacing the simplistic majority vote system with range voting. What it comes down to is that instead of picking 1 item out of a range of options, just to grade every option by itself.

It stuck with me that not even the most technology savvy political blogs and website out there used range voting for their polls. I don't know why I didn't just do it when I had the idea but I did it now, and I managed to whip up a javascript based widget that works across domains and can be placed on any website by including 1 or 2 lines of script.

I included one poll below and I hope it works across most browsers. It's just a couple of hours coding so it's hardly done and I did no cross browser testing.