Initialization

Decide on label of the election. We will refer to that as $label; this label is to be passed as a parameter to gen-ballot.pl and updated near the top of web-ballot.pl. The generated votes.txt file contains this in its filename.

Copy names-sample.txt to names.txt or create your own names.txt. Clobber your ~/votes $label.txt file.

Generating Ballots

./gen-ballot.pl 15 "testovaci komise" <names.txt >tokens.txt

Web Ballot CGI Script

Put names.txt and tokens.txt to the same directory as web-ballot.pl and make that directory available for CGI script execution. If this directory is accessible over web, don't forget to remove read permissions for all but the owner.

After updating the "$label" setting in web-ballot.pl, it should just work; you may need to adjust the votes.txt path currently hardcoded in web-ballot.pl, where the cast votes are recorded.

Counting Votes

This script will show just the final vote for each token:

perl -nle 'chomp; @b = split/,/; $a{$b[0]} = [@b]; END { for (values %a) { print join(",", @$_); } }' ~/'votes testovaci komise'.txt >finalvotes.txt

Append votes from collected paper ballots, one line per ballot, with numbers for each candidate as entered (use 0 in place of numbers not entered for a particular candidate).

Then, build input for hlas.pl - a text file, that has:

NUMBER_OF_ELECTED_CANDIDATES  (1 for predseda, 3 or 5 or 7 for rada, ...)
<names.txt>

<cat finalvotes.txt | cut -d, -f 2- | tr , ' '>

0

(See hlas-example.txt for an example.)

Then, run hlas.pl < textfile and there you go!

Drawing Lots

If you see Chybi zaznam o losovani. there was a tie. Draw a random vote and look at the number of the candidate who was assigned number one (1) on this ballot. Enter this number after the last empty line (before the final "0" line) and run hlas.pl again.