Forum OpenACS Q&A: Volunteers needed for OCT Fall 2004 election

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1: Volunteers needed for OCT Fall 2004 election
Posted by Dave Bauer on 09/24/04 06:49 PM
5 members of the OCT terms will expire in October. This is a call for a couple of volunteers to manage the election.

Here is some example of the last election process:

https://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=183920
https://openacs.org/governance/
https://openacs.org/governance/may2004verification/guanyang

If you have any questions, post here or stop by the irc channel https://openacs.org/irc/

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2: Renewed Call for Volunteers for OCT Fall 2004 election (response to 1)
Posted by Dave Bauer on 09/29/04 05:25 PM
This is my second request for volunteers to help manage the OCT election process for October 2004. If you are able to help please reply to this thread.

To recap:

5 members of the OCT terms will expire in October. This is a call for a couple of volunteers to manage the election.

Here is some example of the last election process:

https://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=183920
https://openacs.org/governance/
https://openacs.org/governance/may2004verification/guanyang

If you have any questions, post here or stop by the irc channel https://openacs.org/irc/

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3: Re: Renewed Call for Volunteers for OCT Fall 2004 election (response to 2)
Posted by Steve Manning on 10/01/04 10:46 PM
Dave

Could you give us an idea whats involved timewise and how much of this is automated

If its not too much I'll volunteer.

    - Steve

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4: Re: Volunteers needed for OCT Fall 2004 election (response to 1)
Posted by Jarkko Laine on 10/05/04 03:12 PM
Steve,

I was volunteering last spring (although Guan Yang did the most work). It's not a whole lotta work, especially since Guan wrote a script that counts the votes from an mbox file. I think the biggest part of work is to create the list of eligible voters and to compare every ballot to that list.

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5: Re: Volunteers needed for OCT Fall 2004 election (response to 1)
Posted by David Cotter on 10/05/04 03:36 PM
I did the vote counting before once before - glad to do it again

David

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6: Re: Volunteers needed for OCT Fall 2004 election (response to 4)
Posted by Guan Yang on 10/05/04 05:23 PM
It was more work than expected. I actually started doing a manual count, then decided halfway that it was too hard and error-prone, and started writing the vote counting script.

The script is here: http://unicast.org/download/vote.tcl

The consensus after last election was that the next election should be done with more automation, perhaps based on the simple-survey package. This was complicated by the fact that last time there were a couple of eligible voters who did not have openacs.org accounts.

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7: Re: Volunteers needed for OCT Fall 2004 election (response to 6)
Posted by Guan Yang on 10/05/04 05:27 PM
By the way, there's some code in that version of the script to print out the names of people who voted for Caroline Meeks; IIRC this was to check for problems because Jarkko got a different count for her.
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8: Re: Volunteers needed for OCT Fall 2004 election (response to 1)
Posted by Dave Bauer on 10/06/04 05:25 PM
Steve,

See this forum thread. There is a way to query the forums to see who is eligible and you can see what sort of time frames we set for the various stages.

We need to generate a list of eligible voters, accept nominations, send ballots and count them.