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<a href="http://www.gnome.org">
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<a href="/">Home</a> :
<a href="http://www.gnome.org/press/">Press</a> :
<a href="/organization.html">Organization</a> :
<a href="/documentation.html">Documentation</a> :
<a href="/membership.html">Membership</a> :
<a href="/elections/">Other Elections</a> :
<a href="/directory.html">Directory</a> :
<a href="http://www.gnome.org/friends/">Fundraising</a>
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<a href="index.html">General information</a> :
<a href="rules.html">Rules & timeline</a> :
<a href="candidates.html">List of candidates</a> :
<a href="voters.html">List of voters</a> :
<a href="overview.html">Director overview</a> :
Verify instructions :
<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
steps:</p>
<p>First, obtain copies of the <a
href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/vote/2001-November.txt.gz">ballot
archive</a> (referred to below as 2001-November.txt), the <a
href="registered-voters.txt">membership list</a>
(registered-voters.txt), and the two voting scripts, <a
href="list-addresses.py">list-addresses.py</a> and <a
href="vote-counter.py">vote-counter.py</a></p>
<p>Then, extract the valid voting addresses from the membership list:
<pre>$ python list-addresses.py registered-voters.txt > addresses.txt</pre>
<p>Next, run the vote counter script; it's probably best to save the results to a file (they are long):
<pre>$ python vote-counter.py 2001-November.txt
gnome-foundation-secret-cXjoS6521 addresses.txt > results.txt</pre>
<p>The results should be in results.txt. A list of errors will be
generated at the top of the output, but note that many of those errors
will represent problems which are fixed later in the archive
(manifested by the voter having a counted ballot later in the
results). The final tallies will be at the bottom.</p>
<p>To exactly replicate the posted results, you should apply this <a
href="vote-archives.diff">diff file</a>, which represents the
votetakers' changes to the voting archive to fix malformatted ballots to
reflect the evident intent of the voters.</p>
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<center><font size=-1>This site is maintained by
<a href="mailto:membership-committee@gnome.org">the GNOME Foundation Membership and Elections Committee</a>
and was designed by <a href="mailto:jpsc@users.sourceforge.net">JP
Schnapper-Casteras</a> and <a href="mailto:bart@eazel.com">Bart Decrem</a>.</font></center>
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