On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 12:20:14PM +0100, Sven LUTHER wrote: > how can we know it is wrong (well know for sure, as different from having the > suspision ?) > > if the ballot is listed as 1234 for example, does this correspond to voting > for all 4 candidates and not having filled the further discution, or does it > correspond to having voted for everyone except the first candidate. > > Or should it have been a ballot of -1234 or 1234- ? > > Anyway, i guess my ballot was also wrongly acounted, but i will wait for the > second confirmation now, ...
Any confirmation that doesn't have five positions is tallied incorrectly. In retrospect, I should have used A, B, C, D, and E for the ballot options. For the purpose of an example, let's assume that I had. If you voted ACED (A first, C second, E third, D fourth) on an ABCDE ballot, your confirmation should say: 1-243 That is, the numbers indicate your ranking of each option, with options indicated by position. Also, I've [belatedly] found out that debvote is a debian package. You can pull down a copy of the package, read the docs for yourself etc. etc. [Let me tell you: reading the docs is a lot easier than trying to figure out how it works by reading the code when you're not even quite sure which files are relevant.] Thanks, -- Raul
