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| <title>Apache Voting Using the Vote Tool Web Interface</title> |
| <script type="text/javascript"> |
| function cast(form) { |
| window.location = "https://vote.apache.org/cast/" + form.issue.value + "/" + form.hash.value; |
| return false; |
| } |
| </script> |
| <meta name="description" content="Apache STeve is a community voting solution, and in use by the ASF."> |
| <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> |
| <meta name="generator" content="Apache STeVe"> |
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| <body> |
| <h1>Types of Votes</h1> |
| |
| <ul> |
| <li>yna - yes, no, abstain</li> |
| <li>stv1-9 - Single Transferable Vote for 1-9 Slots</li> |
| <li>select1-9 - Select (Unordered) Preference for 1-9 Slots</li> |
| </ul> |
| |
| <h1>Mechanics of Casting a Vote</h1> |
| |
| <p> |
| You can access the VOTE URL directly at : https://vote.apache.org/cast/$issue/$hash |
| </p> |
| <p>or use the following form</p> |
| <p> |
| <form name="input" method="get"> |
| <table> |
| <tr><td>Issue</td><td><input type="text" name="issue" style="width:32em" /></td></tr> |
| <tr><td>Hash</td><td><input type="text" name="hash" style="width:32em" /></td></tr> |
| <tr><td><input type="submit" onclick="return cast(this.form)" value="Ballot"/></td></tr> |
| </table> |
| </form> |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| On success you will be presented with a ballot containing a form to fill |
| out for your actual vote. |
| </p> |
| |
| <h1>How the Web Interface to the Vote Tool Works</h1> |
| |
| <p> |
| Firstly, after supplying your LDAP username and password, the URL is |
| validated and used to determine your voter email address. If you are |
| doing a GET, the web interface will display the proper ballot for |
| the issue. If you are doing a POST, the web interface will treat that |
| as an attempt to vote on the issue and will validate your vote before |
| passing it along to the vote tool. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| The web interface is REST compliant, so you can determine the outcome |
| of your cast vote by looking at the resulting HTTP response status code. |
| If the status code is 200 your vote was successfully cast; otherwise it |
| will be 500. This means you can vote using the web interface with |
| standard web-client tools like curl if you so desire. The POST should |
| contain a single parameter: "vote", whose corresponding value will be |
| your actual vote on the issue. |
| </p> |
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| <h1>Additional References</h1> |
| |
| <ul> |
| <li>Apache Wiki: <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/general/MemberVoting">Description of Member Voting process</a></li> |
| <li>Apache Wiki: <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/general/BoardVoting">Description of Board Voting process</a></li> |
| <li>Wikipedia: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Transferable_Vote">Single Transferable Vote</a></li> |
| <li>STV: <a href="http://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/votingsystems/stvi.htm"> |
| http://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/votingsystems/stvi.htm</a></li> |
| <li>STV: <a href="http://www.cix.co.uk/~rosenstiel/stvrules/index.htm"> |
| http://www.cix.co.uk/~rosenstiel/stvrules/index.htm</a></li> |
| </ul> |
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| </body> |
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| <ul> |
| <li><a href="http://wiki.apache.org/general/BoardVoting"> |
| http://wiki.apache.org/general/BoardVoting</a></li> |
| </ul> |
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