2004-10-11 18:16:29 +00:00
|
|
|
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
|
|
|
|
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
|
|
|
|
<html>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
<head>
|
|
|
|
<title>GNOME Foundation Anonymous Voting Referendum Verification</title>
|
|
|
|
<meta name="cvsdate" content="$Date$" />
|
2006-07-03 18:31:02 +00:00
|
|
|
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
|
2004-10-11 18:16:29 +00:00
|
|
|
</head>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
<body>
|
2005-03-01 12:16:38 +00:00
|
|
|
<h1>Verification of the GNOME Foundation Anonymous Voting Referendum Results</h1>
|
2004-10-11 18:16:29 +00:00
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
To run the vote counting scripts, you need to download this archive:
|
|
|
|
<a href="2004-10-verif.tar.gz">2004-10-verif.tar.gz</a>.
|
|
|
|
</p>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
Please note that you need make, wget, perl and python to run the
|
|
|
|
verification.
|
|
|
|
</p>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
We advise every member to download the verification software and to
|
|
|
|
verify that his/her counted vote is indeed the vote he/she sent
|
|
|
|
</p>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
<h2>Running the verification</h2>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
Here are the steps to obtain the results:
|
|
|
|
</p>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
<pre>$ tar zxvf 2004-10-verif.tar.gz</pre>
|
|
|
|
<pre>$ cd 2004-10-verif</pre>
|
|
|
|
<pre>$ make</pre>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
The results should be in results.txt. A list of errors will be generated
|
|
|
|
at the top of the output. The final tallies will be at the bottom.
|
|
|
|
</p>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
<h2>The verification software</h2>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
<p>
|
|
|
|
With this verification software, you should get the same results that the
|
|
|
|
one posted by the GNOME Foundation Membership and Elections Committee.
|
|
|
|
You may want to verify the validity of this software, so here are some
|
|
|
|
hints to help you:
|
|
|
|
</p>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
<ul>
|
|
|
|
<li>
|
|
|
|
look at registered-voters.txt: this file contains the list of voters.
|
|
|
|
You can match it with the <a href="voters.html">official list</a>.
|
|
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>
|
|
|
|
look at vote-archives.diff: this file contains all the modifications
|
|
|
|
that are made to the original vote archives to make the script work
|
|
|
|
without any problem. The main modifications are due to UTF-8 problems
|
|
|
|
or some misplaced characters. Some spams are also removed from the
|
|
|
|
archives.
|
|
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>
|
|
|
|
look at vote-counter.py: this script does the counting. You can read
|
|
|
|
its code if you want to search for serious bugs that may alter the
|
|
|
|
results.
|
|
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
</ul>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
</body>
|
|
|
|
</html>
|