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

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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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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.