Re: Elections php module

[Omar Abo-Namous <merlin12345 at gmx dot de>]

Salam guys,

i'm ashamed to say, there were some complications i didn't foresee. One of them
- but not major - being some guests coming over. Though i'm in the final stages
of the election module, i won't be able to finish today. I think i'll need till
monday.

Here is what i'm working on at the moment:
vote-site has some pulldowns with the names of the candidates. i don't know yet,
where to put their nomination text.. i'd have to check with javascript, that the
user didn't chose two times the same candidate. Then there will be a very
intense checking procedure on vote.php after sending the form. And yes i think
the best way at the moment to achieve that defrauding we were talking about will
be the same email saved in the sql-table.

So, i'd have to catch some sleep.
cya.
Salam.

Omar


On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 10:03:18 -0700 (PDT), Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> --- Omar Abo-Namous <merlin12345 at gmx dot de> wrote:
>> Who will be able to see the votes ? I'm thinking the core (obviously)
>> will see it under the administration menu. Everyone who has nominated
>> himself will see *his* votes at the side of the screen (under Preferences).
>> Should a guest to the site (no user) and a user without the required
>> cvs-commit see the results at the time the election is been held?
>
> Only 'core' is to see the results.  All voters are to get an email
> confirmation of their votes (and their votes should be recorded in mysql
> as well in case a recount is called for).  It would be ideal if the email
> (and mysql) also included an md5sum of the following info noted in the
> sample below (the sample below is the email to be sent to each voter post
> voting),
>
> -- Sample begin
> Voter Name : first last
> Date       : vote date
> Election   : Core selection 2004
> Random #   : Some random number
> Selection1 : nominee-name or blank
> Selection2 : nominee-name or blank
> Selection3 : nominee-name or blank
> Selection4 : nominee-name or blank
> Selection5 : nominee-name or blank
> -- Sample end
> md5sum     : number-string
>
> So you take the sample text above and pipe it into md5sum and attach that
> md5sum into the email as well as into mysql (this md5sum is just a sanity
> check in case someone comes back and says, "hey, I didn't vote that way",
> then we can say - yes you did and we have the md5sum to prove it beyond
> your actual selections).  One easy way is to attach the email's contents
> to voters' mysql table entries for safe keeping (again all that stuff,
> random_num/md5sum, etc is to be only used in case of any disagreements).
>
> If the above sounds hairy, don't worry about it - we can do it all later.
>
> BTW: there are various bits of info noted in the newly updated handbook [1]
>
> [1] http://www.arabeyes.org/download/documents/handbook/handbook-en/
>
> Salam and keep up the great work.
>
> - Nadim
>
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Omar Abo-Namous, merlin12345 at gmx dot de on 09.10.2004