Re: Vote Tallied
Sorry, I pulled a long night yesterday. My schedule will
be a lot saner next week.
Anyways, looks like you've already announced it. Just go ahead.
Thanks,
--
Raul
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 09:10:54PM -0800, Darren O. Benham wrote:
> Ok, the reprocessor is ready. I made a few changes so that "errors" won't
> get resent.. just valid responses... Since you are running the vote, please
> announce that the reprocessing of ballots is about to start. Since the
> mailbox is still chmod me.. I'll have to do the actual running of the ballot
> box through the process.
>
> Raul: call me as soon as you are ready
>
> Culus: What are the permissions I need to set the .forward file to, to get
> exim to hold the mail and not processa and not bounce it?
>
> Darren
>
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 01:34:53PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 12:20:14PM +0100, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> > > how can we know it is wrong (well know for sure, as different from having the
> > > suspision ?)
> > >
> > > if the ballot is listed as 1234 for example, does this correspond to voting
> > > for all 4 candidates and not having filled the further discution, or does it
> > > correspond to having voted for everyone except the first candidate.
> > >
> > > Or should it have been a ballot of -1234 or 1234- ?
> > >
> > > Anyway, i guess my ballot was also wrongly acounted, but i will wait for the
> > > second confirmation now, ...
> >
> > Any confirmation that doesn't have five positions is tallied incorrectly.
> >
> > In retrospect, I should have used A, B, C, D, and E for the ballot
> > options. For the purpose of an example, let's assume that I had.
> >
> > If you voted ACED (A first, C second, E third, D fourth) on an ABCDE
> > ballot, your confirmation should say:
> >
> > 1-243
> >
> > That is, the numbers indicate your ranking of each option, with
> > options indicated by position.
> >
> > Also, I've [belatedly] found out that debvote is a debian package. You
> > can pull down a copy of the package, read the docs for yourself etc. etc.
> > [Let me tell you: reading the docs is a lot easier than trying to figure
> > out how it works by reading the code when you're not even quite sure
> > which files are relevant.]
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --
> > Raul
> >
>
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