[maemo-community] Elections - proposal for counting

[From: Dave Neary]

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Dave.

Andrew Flegg wrote:
> 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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