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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
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<title>GNOME Foundation 2004 Election Verification</title>
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<meta name="cvsdate" content="$Date$" />
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</head>
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<body>
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<h1>Election Verification</h1>
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<p>
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To run the vote counting scripts, you need to download this archive:
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<a href="2004-verif.tar.gz">2004-verif.tar.gz</a>.
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</p>
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<p>
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Please note that you need make, wget, patch and python to run the
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verification.
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</p>
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<p>
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We advise every member to download the verification software and to
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verify that his/her counted vote is indeed the vote he/she sent.
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</p>
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<h2>Running the verification</h2>
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<p>
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Here are the steps to obtain the results:
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</p>
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<pre>$ tar zxvf 2004-verif.tar.gz</pre>
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<pre>$ cd 2004-verif</pre>
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<pre>$ make</pre>
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<p>
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You may be unable to get the vote archives from <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/vote/">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/vote/</a>. Until this is sorted out, you can get both files <a href="http://www.gnome.org/~rossg/vote/2004-November.txt.gz">here</a> and <a href="http://www.gnome.org/~rossg/vote/2004-December.txt.gz">here</a>.
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</p>
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<p>
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The results should be in results.txt. A list of errors will be generated
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at the top of the output. The final tallies will be at the bottom.
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</p>
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<h2>The verification software</h2>
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<p>
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With this verification software, you should get the same results that the
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one posted by the GNOME Foundation Membership and Elections Committee.
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You may want to verify the validity of this software, so here are some
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hints to help you:
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</p>
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<ul>
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<li>
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look at registered-voters.txt: this file contains the list of voters.
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You can match it with the <a href="voters.html">official list</a>.
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</li>
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<li>
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look at vote-archives.diff: this file contains all the modifications
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that are made to the original vote archives to make the script work
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without any problem. The main modifications are due to UTF-8 problems
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or some misplaced characters. Some spams are also removed from the
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archives.
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</li>
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<li>
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look at vote-counter.py: this script does the counting. You can read
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its code if you want to search for serious bugs that may alter the
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results.
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</li>
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</ul>
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</body>
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</html>
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