Hi Diebold^H^H^H^H^H^H^HStephen,
(kidding - it was too obvious a joke not to be made)

Your 60 hour extension plan for those 33 members sounds fine to me.  
Thanks for finding the bug before-hand... better before than after.

cheers,
steve

Stephen Hahn wrote:
>    I spent last night tweaking my reporting scripts so I could quickly
>    turn out the HTML report this morning.  Unfortunately, once
>    I started collating results, I ran into some problems.  What I
>    found what that 33 ballots appear spoiled, due to a bug handling
>    abstentions.  (213 of the 246 ballots received have no abstentions
>    and are fine.)  The affected ballots have hash IDs
>
> 4b4a44efeb8945823211d2af418110d4809d69c8
> 824b361cc6b2a6dbca9c5c2799aabb01bd557cf7
> 40a251928308d43b5584ca22a20bf9ad58c45ed5
> a7043867cf2560e7b8260b58b813c3781ed73325
> 8a23e461662bbfd696c18814c315d980e06ce6b8
> f99d25fb05d0e29e59271da811a5cc2eb006aabf
> 7d7426186ed40e8a615772edc116fb66ff6d1c83
> f685d78ec93decd49c74069a77243ad663fa7f80
> c38220792dcce6b79b78fa8baecb2898a32d0d23
> 4abe130751edfc5c7c40920fea910b810f55a70f
> 9713c856b731ddd23201044d62b0d3f132ccd89d
> 1f77e97137d4cf8cd5b1f244a744010b887356bc
> eafc8c53de06b5cbc4f367fd9af7bc0a8a4136fd
> 7f7192c83f27259601e1a97d336e290c798ea1da
> 19e6130ce4d185543166e8cb970bebc11f6e9cd2
> c707aaf081ce5d2f3d3ea53373a978f106079afe
> 6a94751a2816d327db526374210668123bbe1c1a
> dcccea899110b4f8f6c260525cf90f661b10d115
> 994312f0cd8f2dd070b5c105366996074dfd31a8
> ae751b6cf617967c63c80a2ecd470f6fc165d6d9
> 6458886e0ecd0300f8cc0671b99848be66b76438
> aa4579f548342c1a9fcd12d35131933cc1e3055e
> 51d2cfaf38cad50ea5ae10300bbedee4ea5230ef
> 0f59c5bc7ff9b27e44f1731c69106a5c62295460
> 90866cc3f7e75fc02dbb2d906815e9f58e83359b
> b84c42a95e32d881dabf46e152cc563a7d440d66
> 1314413c21d979072a40e64c18d53953dc21498d
> d74c7c7074c626e0ff946f49f00523dd5eb14799
> bee7c4a6297a7f798db5f9eb603c19d448c7d172
> 48c10523b51f823d66d6335ae44e21c12e8b6e8e
> efe9784a26512b50543d122c56685c8b7f8b8ebc
> d5e725df6b8a7c01c826fa2b2993f2e66e3397d5
> 836f7ebf62000fbc550a2983d80fd5ea808e232e
>
>    Since I am effectively the Elections Committee, my
>    proposal--after apologizing for not catching this test case--is
>    that I delete these 33 ballots so that those members may revote,
>    extend the election until we have 33 new ballots from those members
>    or until 235959 PDT Thursday (whichever occurs first), and issue nag
>    mails for those periods.  (Ballots submitted during this extension by
>    members who hadn't voted during the original period will be ignored.)
>    An alternative is to invalidate all 33 ballots entirely, but that is
>    1/8 of the received votes.
>
>    Suggestions, objections welcomed; flagellations accepted.  If there are no
>    comments by 113000 PDT today, I'll act according to the above proposal.
>
>    Apologies
>    Stephen
>
> [] The patch follows.
>
> --- Voting.py.ORIG      Tue Mar 25 09:16:11 2008
> +++ Voting.py   Tue Mar 25 09:15:40 2008
> @@ -446,7 +446,7 @@
>  """, accept_question_response, len(q.answers))
>  
>                  if result == "":
> -                        ballot_blt = "1 0; "
> +                        ballot_blt += "1 0; "
>                          ballot_hr[q.short_desc] = "[ -abstain- ]"
>  
>                  else:
>
>
>   


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