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 > -- Please cc all mailing list replies to me, also. * http://benham.net/index.html <gecko@benham.net> <>< * * Debian: Software in the Public Interest: * * Project Secretary Treasurer * * Webmaster Team * * BTS Team siteROCK: * * Lintian Team Linux Infrastructure Engineer *
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