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'''OBSOLETE''' see http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo.org_team/Creating_an_election

Instructions for generating election results once an election is completed. In this example, the election ID is 8.

# Go to http://maemo.org/vote/
# Click on election link - get to http://maemo.org/vote/results.php?election_id=8
# Click on [http://maemo.org/vote/votes.php?election_id=8 "List of all votes"]
# Click on [http://maemo.org/vote/blt.php?election_id=8 "Download the ballots"]
# Browser proposes open or save - save the file (election.blt)
# Launch [http://www.openstv.org/ OpenSTV] (version 1.5 is latest as of writing)
# File->New election
# Load election.blt file - Method: Fractional transfer STV (for the character survey, I chose the Borda method, because fractional transfer didn't make any sense)
# Election options: Seat number = number of desired elected candidates (1 for referendum, 5 for council, etc); Threshold = Droop, Static, Whole; Delay surplus transfer = Off; Batch elimination = Zero; click OK
# Election results generated - you can see the winners & count details. To generate HTML version: Results->Save results as HTML - save file election_results.html
# Edit HTML file to take care of MySQL formating (escape quotes, backslashes, etc) and remove HTML headers - manual process
#* remove <html> and <head>,
#*  change <body> into <nowiki><div></nowiki>
#* sed/\'center\'/\"center\"/g
#* Ensure HTML attributes are quoted (colspan, rowspan, border, cellspacing)
#* Massage output as necessary (removing "symbols are elected" for characters survey, replacing characters with HTML entities, etc)
# Insert results in non-production database to test:
#: mysql -uelection -p election
#: $ insert into election_results values (8 <the election_id on the results URL above>, '<copy & paste HTML file>');
# Check that results display correctly, and massage results field if needed.
# Dump insert from non-prod DB to send for insertion in prod DB (as an SQL statement, to make it as easy as possible - ensures quoting & character escaping is done correctly):
#: mysqldump -uelection -p -t -w 'election_results.election_id=8' election election_results > results.sql
# On production database, mysql -u<db user> -p < results.sql

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 #* Ensure HTML attributes are quoted (colspan, rowspan, border, cellspacing)
 #* Massage output as necessary (removing "symbols are elected" for characters survey, replacing characters with HTML entities, etc)
-# Insert results in non-production database to test (ensure that the file is world readable & the directory hierarchy is world executable, and that the DB user has the FILE privilege):
+# Insert results in non-production database to test:
 #: mysql -uelection -p election
-#: $ insert into election_results values (8 <the election_id on the results URL above>, LOAD_FILE('/path/to/html/file');
+#: $ insert into election_results values (8 <the election_id on the results URL above>, '<copy & paste HTML file>');
 # Check that results display correctly, and massage results field if needed.
 # Dump insert from non-prod DB to send for insertion in prod DB (as an SQL statement, to make it as easy as possible - ensures quoting & character escaping is done correctly):