[Discussion] How to do community voting?

[RJDan]

I would like to run the 'community favourite app' awards again later this year but there are a few things that could have been a bit improved.
One key issue was how to do the voting with anonymous members.

To have fair elections with a one person-one vote setup we need a way to regulate how often a person votes and thus we need a unique personal (albeit temporary) identifier. Normally this done through government issued IDs but I guess an email serves the same purpose if we dont need to be super strict... but the point is we would rely on an already existing system.

I doubt people in the community would be happy to share IDs, emails etc with a random internet person for the sake of voting.
To use online providers, I would still need to get everyones emails to register them.
Using the forum messaging system gets difficult for lots of voters as it means a lot of manual response collection.

Would a dedicated app provide any benefit? Would the open store be a way to ensure one phone - one vote anonymously? or would I still need to rely on emails etc?

[gpatel-fr]

@RJDan

Sorry if I am beating a dead horse as I was not following the previous voting, but has any thought being given to install the polling nodebb plugin for this forum ? as far as I know it's maintained by the core nodebb team and is more than 10 years old, so it should probably not be a great risk.