[ILUG] Electronic Voting

[Ian Spillane]

I just want to use the electronic voting for the laugh really.

2009/5/20 Thomas Pedoussaut <thomas at staffeurs.org>

> Ian Spillane wrote:
> > Folks,
> > We have a staff vote at work coming up soon. I've been asked to do the
> > ballot paper (I have the reputation for being the geek to create tidy
> > documents) but I'd like help to go a bit further and have some fun.
> >
> > Any ideas for using a Linux box as an electronic voting machine?
> >
> > Is there any software out there?
> >
> > Is there a simple (I really mean simple); html/sql solution?
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> John Gormley has a few thousand machines laying around. Just kidding.
>
> Honestly, just forget it, paper is much more simple, secret. Computer
> might be handy for counting though.
>
> Recently for an AGM, we used the just grep -c to count votes.
> It was the type "pick 6 out of 8 candidates".
> While the ballots were opened and read, we were just typing stuff like
> 134578 for each ballot, into a text file.
>
> --
> Thomas
>



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