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								  <title>The GNOME Foundation: How to verify the 2001 elections results</title>
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								       <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-December/msg00002.html">Official results</a>
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								<p>To run the vote counting scripts, you need to perform several
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								steps:</p>
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								<p>First, obtain copies of the <a
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								href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/vote/2001-November.txt.gz">ballot
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								archive</a> (referred to below as 2001-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></p>
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								<p>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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								<p>Next, run the vote counter script; it's probably best to save the results to a file (they are long):
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								<pre>$ python vote-counter.py 2001-November.txt 
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								gnome-foundation-secret-cXjoS6521 addresses.txt > results.txt</pre>
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								<p>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.</p>
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								<p>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.</p>
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								      <center><font size=-1>This site is maintained by
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								      <a href="mailto:membership-committee@gnome.org">the GNOME Foundation Membership and Elections Committee</a>
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								      and was designed by <a href="mailto:jpsc@users.sourceforge.net">JP
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								      Schnapper-Casteras</a> and <a href="mailto:bart@eazel.com">Bart Decrem</a>.</font></center>
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