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<title>GNOME Foundation 2003 Election Verification</title>
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2003-12-12 14:53:42 +00:00
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2003-12-12 14:49:22 +00:00
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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="2003-verif.tar.gz">2003-verif.tar.gz</a>.
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Please note that you need make, wget, perl and python to run the
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verification.
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<h2>Warning</h2>
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The authentication tokens sent in the ballots were calculated with an
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old version of the MD5 perl module. It seems there is a bug in this
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version which make it impossible to get the same authentication tokens
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without this buggy module.
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Note that the authentication tokens did work as expected: they are used
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to identify the member so we're sure it's him/her who did vote. The only
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problem arises when counting the votes: to verify the identity of a
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voter, you need the buggy module.
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We needed to work around this bug so everyone could verify the results.
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This is why the verification software contains bad-token.txt: this
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file contains all the miscalculated tokens and every information needed
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to associate them with tokens that everyone can verify.
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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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<h2>Running the verification</h2>
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Here are the steps to obtain the results:
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<pre>$ tar zxvf 2003-verif.tar.gz</pre>
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<pre>$ cd 2003-verif</pre>
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<pre>$ make</pre>
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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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<h2>The verification software</h2>
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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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<ul>
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look at bad-token.txt: this file contains the list of all the
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validation tokens that were calculated using a misbehaving perl module.
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The only way to get these tokens is to use the misbehaving perl module.
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This file is used as a reference so we can replace the miscalculated
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tokens with tokens that everyone can verify.
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look at fix-token.pl: this script use bad-token.txt to search for the
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miscalculated authentication tokens in the vote archives and replace
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them with authentication tokens that everyon can verify. You can look
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at the source code to be sure it does its job well and does nothing
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else.
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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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