[OSM-talk] election 1 Voting system prototype

Robert (Jamie) Munro rjmunro at arjam.net
Fri Jan 18 15:35:16 GMT 2008


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Sebastian Spaeth wrote:
| OK, I just coded up a little prototype. Consider this a small test of
| the system. I propose to set up an osmvoting mailing list to which vote
| proposals are sent. Subscribers will have to just insert one of the
| following:
| +1
| -1
| 0
| at the beginning of a line to vote (pro, con, abstain) and press reply.
| (Your mail address will not be published anywhere). Done. You can try it
| out now. Hit reply, insert +1,-1 or 0 at the beginning of a new line
| somewhere in the mail. Replies need to be send to osmvote at sspaeth.de
| (the mailing list should be set up to do just that automatically). A
| script evaluates new mails once per hour and records the votes. You can
| see the results of all votes here:
| http://sspaeth.de/osm/mailvote/
|
| Try it out and vote positive and negative to try it out (there is
| currently no restriction to one vote per mail address, but that is
trivial).

Not to dismiss your effort, but I think that voting by e-mail is a silly
idea. We should add a simple voting thing to the rails interface, so
that it can be authenticated by the same system. It's probably a 10
minute job for a rails expert.

Another thing: When a vote opens, we should probably lock the wiki page
about it (but not the talk page), so that people don't change the
proposal and cause votes to be cast on different things.

Jamie
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