Re: Electronic Voting -- how about for free?

[Gerry Snyder <geraldcsnyder@gmail.com>]

ritagormley@yahoo.com wrote:
> Gerry, I've looked the program over and it works slick!  Couple of questions:
>  
> Is this a canned program or can you make changes in it?
>   

Rita,

Thanks for the kind words.

It is still very much in flux. The basics are there, and work, but much 
remains to be done.
> 1.  How are the results stored?  Does the Awards Chair have the individual
> results by password?
>   

The results are stored in a relational data base. As it is set up right 
now, any user can see the totals by clicking on a button. When next 
year's ballot is implemented for real, yes, the Awards Chair would be 
the only one with access to the results. The s/w would not be running on 
one of my PC's (as it is now) (presumably hosted by the same site as the 
rest of the AIS web pages). I would assign the AC a temporary password 
and after it was changed I would no longer have access to the data.

> 2, Who has to assign all the individual passwords for the 700+ judges?

John Jones had some thoughts in that area (which I cannot recall at the 
moment). It will take work, but we will come up with a workable plan.
> 3.  Is each individual judge able to store his/her own vote?
>   

Yes.
>  
> 4.  Can you do this for the TB Symposium-sure looks like it would be much
> easier than what we currently have (would limit # of votes to 25) but what
> prevents "multiple voting" since doing passwords for you couldn't possible do
> invidividual passwords for the 4,000 members.  We are still looking for a way
> to greatly increase the pitiful participation in the TB Symposium.
>   

Yes, web voting for the Symposium is very appealing. By next year we 
should be able to have something pretty good in place.

Also, I have been working on a web tallying system for the RVP's that 
could be used this year.


Gerry

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