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COMMERCIAL: eVote 1.0 Developer's Kit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sat Mar 18 12:37:52 1995
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 1995 17:23:23 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
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From: evote@netcom.com (Marilyn Davis)
Subject: COMMERCIAL: eVote 1.0 Developer's Kit
Summary: Online voting software available by ftp
Keywords: voting democracy polling software API Linux commercial
Organization: Frontier Systems
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.misc
For Linux Programmers only:
Developer's Kit for eVote
=========================
------>>> by ftp <<<-----
* * * ftp site: ftp.netcom.com
* * login: anonymous / your email address
* directory: /ftp/pub/ev/evote/linux
files: eVote.bin.tar.gz
eVote.source.tar.gz
README
You get: 1. Three eVote binaries:
* eVote_Clerk - vote-server - expires Jan, 1996.
* eVote_Demo - user-interface
* eVote - command center
2. Source code for the user-interface.
3. The eVote Programmer's Manual - complete instructions
for groupware developers in 134 pages of device-
independent (manual.dvi) or post script (manual.PS)
format.
* Architecture/Overview - 2 diagrams.
* Installing eVote
* Administration
* Embedding eVote
* Altering the User Interface
* API Reference
* Careful Index
===============================
Features Supported by eVote 1.0
===============================
* User-defined polls.
* Three vote-types: PRIVATE - for secret votes
PUBLIC - for a show of hands
IF-VOTED - for who-voted but not how-voted
* Two vote-styles: Yes/No
Numeric
* Single and Grouped votes. An example of a "Grouped" vote is,
"Distribute 20 votes over the next 10 items".
* Three vote states: Open - vote is open and tallies appear.
Unseen - vote is open and tallies don't appear.
Closed - vote is closed and tallies appear.
* User-driven schema evolution.
* Automatic data compression and backups with no down-time.
FULL LICENSE
The license for The Clerk, the underlying vote-server, runs out on
January 1, 1996. Your Clerk won't run at all after January 1, 1997.
Send $80 US for a fully-licensed run-forever Clerk with your own Serial
Number. This gives each of your users a voice in the global eVoting
community.
Frontier Systems --------------------- eVote - online voting software
3790 El Camino Real, #147
Palo Alto, CA 94306 USA Marilyn Davis, Ph.D.
(415) 493-3631 --- eVote@netcom.com --- Software Author
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