Methodology
The same basic voting system is used across VAR decisions, football opinion polls and the permanent global VAR ballot.
VarVote supports specific VAR decisions, wider football opinion polls and the permanent global VAR ballot. Each published vote has its own question and answer labels. The global vote shows the percentage split after voting, while total votes and country breakdown become public once the detail threshold is reached.
A random token is created in the participant’s browser. It is kept in browser storage when available and in a necessary first-party, HttpOnly cookie so restricted in-app browsers can keep the same voting identity. The server hashes the token before storage and rejects another ballot using the same token.
The selected or suggested country code is stored with the ballot so aggregate country comparisons can be shown.
VarVote does not require a name, supporter profile, telephone number or email address to vote.
After a vote is recorded, the choice can be changed for 60 seconds without increasing the total. After that, the vote is locked.
The browser token and first-party cookie stop straightforward repeat voting from the same browser profile, including browsers that block local storage. They cannot guarantee one vote per human being: a determined person may use another browser, device or cleared browser data. Stronger identity checks would require collecting more personal information, which would conflict with the project’s privacy-first approach.
VarVote presents an open participation result. It is not a probability sample, election, scientific survey or official football consultation.
The percentage split is shown after voting. Total vote count and country breakdown are published once the vote reaches the public detail threshold. Suspected technical problems can be reported to contact@varvote.com.