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<title>GNOME Foundation 2000 Elections Verification</title>
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2005-03-01 12:16:38 +00:00
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<h1>Verification of the GNOME Foundation 2000 Elections Results</h1>
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To run the vote counting scripts, you need to perform several steps:
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First, obtain copies of the <a
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href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/vote/2000-November.txt.gz">ballot
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archive</a> (referred to below as 2000-November.txt), the <a
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href="registered-voters.txt"> membership list</a>
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(registered-voters.txt), and the two voting scripts, <a
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href="list-addresses.py">list-addresses.py</a> and <a
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href="vote-counter.py"> vote-counter.py</a>
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Then, extract the valid voting addresses from the membership list:
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<pre>$ python list-addresses.py registered-voters.txt > addresses.txt</pre>
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Next, run the vote counter script; it's probably best to save the results
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to a file (they are long):
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2003-11-21 15:29:09 +00:00
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<pre>$ python vote-counter.py 2000-November.txt 4-0395-90374589374224098-gnome-foundation-secret-cookie addresses.txt > results.txt</pre>
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The results should be in results.txt. A list of errors will be
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generated at the top of the output, but note that many of those errors
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will represent problems which are fixed later in the archive
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(manifested by the voter having a counted ballot later in the
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results). The final tallies will be at the bottom.
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To exactly replicate the posted results, you should apply this <a
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href="vote-archives.diff">diff file</a>, which represents the
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votetakers' changes to the voting archive to fix malformatted ballots to
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reflect the evident intent of the voters.
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