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Re: Vote Tallied



Ko... as soon as I get Jason's response...

On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 06:41:54PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
> 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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