Re: Elections php module

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

Salam,

so i created a bug-report and sent the files. (i did that dos2unix-thingie.)
There were some changes in the existing files and two new files (nominate.php
and vote.php) as well as two new tables (elections and votes).
Could someone tell me as soon as possible, if it's ok? It's bug #214.

And: it needs some testing. And perhaps some text-editing.

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 10.10.2004