[maemo-community] Elections - proposal for counting

[From: Andrew Flegg]

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Dave Neary <dneary at maemo.org> wrote:
>
> Voting preferentially is possible with a nice (at least I think so)
> Javascript thing going on, you click on names to add them to the
> preference list, click in the preference list to remove, when you're
> happy, you submit, check we got your vote right, and commit.

Sounds good. Is there a static file for playing with available? What
happens if JavaScript is turned off/unavailable?

> At the end of the election, the voting will be closed, people will be
> able to consult the ballots and download them in .blt format (this is
> easy).

Cool.

[...]
> Does this sound acceptable to people? I don't think it's a hard and fast
> requirement of the system to have results calculated on the fly by the
> web app.

Agreed. I don't think an immediate result on-the-fly is a requirement.

Of course, if we don't get more candidates[1] no election is necessary :-/

Cheers,

Andrew

[1] http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Community_Council/Candidate_declarations_for_March_2009

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