Maemo.org team/Generating election results

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

Latest revision as of 23:52, 6 September 2015

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.

  1. Go to http://maemo.org/vote/
  2. Click on election link - get to http://maemo.org/vote/results.php?election_id=8
  3. Click on "List of all votes"
  4. Click on "Download the ballots"
  5. Browser proposes open or save - save the file (election.blt)
  6. Launch OpenSTV (version 1.5 is latest as of writing)
  7. File->New election
  8. 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)
  9. 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
  10. Election results generated - you can see the winners & count details. To generate HTML version: Results->Save results as HTML - save file election_results.html
  11. 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 <div>
    • 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)
  12. 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):
    mysql -uelection -p election
    $ insert into election_results values (8 <the election_id on the results URL above>, LOAD_FILE('/path/to/html/file');
  13. Check that results display correctly, and massage results field if needed.
  14. 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
  15. On production database, mysql -u<db user> -p < results.sql
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