ElectionAudits Announcementstag:launchpad.net,2008-10-01:/electionaudits/+announcementshttps://launchpadlibrarian.net/19137522/check2-64.pnghttps://launchpadlibrarian.net/19137521/check2-14.png2010-02-24T15:46:57.699632+00:00Evolving EML support for auditing via ElectionAudits2010-02-24T15:46:57.699632+00:002010-02-24T15:46:57.659249+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2010-02-24:/+announcement/5221Neal McBurnetthttps://launchpad.net/~nealmcb<p>The Election Markup Language is an international XML-based standard format for end to end management of election processes. Based on initial support for EML exports in ElectionAudits, comments on how to improve auditing via EML have been submitted to the OASIS Election Services Technical Committee: <a href="http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/election-services-comment/200912/msg00002.html" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>lists.oasis-<wbr/>open.org/<wbr/>archives/<wbr/>election-<wbr/>services-<wbr/>comment/<wbr/>200912/<wbr/>msg00002.<wbr/>html</a></p>Paper on Batch Reports via ElectionAudits for NIST workshop2009-11-19T20:56:08.450203+00:002009-11-19T20:59:39.164707+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2009-11-19:/+announcement/4370Neal McBurnetthttps://launchpad.net/~nealmcb<p>At NIST's Common Data Format workshop, Neal McBurnett presented a paper on "Obtaining Batch Reports for Audits from Election Management Systems: ElectionAudits and the Boulder 2008 Election". Read it at<br/>
<a href="http://bcn.boulder.co.us/~neal/electionaudits/electionaudits-formats.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>bcn.boulder.<wbr/>co.us/~<wbr/>neal/electionau<wbr/>dits/electionau<wbr/>dits-formats.<wbr/>pdf</a></p>
<p>It tied in nicely with a recent announcement from an Audit Working Group that we convened at the American Statistical Association, which called for audit reports on small batches: "Data requirements for vote-tabulation audits: Statement to NIST" - <a href="http://electionaudits.org/niststatement" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>electionaudits.<wbr/>org/niststateme<wbr/>nt</a></p>
<p>This has also led to the beginnings of support for the Election Markup Language (EML), an XML format, in ElectionAudits.</p>OSCON talk: ElectionAudits: a Django App for Advanced Election Auditing2009-07-17T13:39:27.483040+00:002009-07-17T13:42:39.667558+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2009-07-17:/+announcement/3222Neal McBurnetthttps://launchpad.net/~nealmcb<p>On Wed Jul 22 at the Open Source Conference in San Jose, CA (OSCON), Neal McBurnett will give a talk on "ElectionAudits: a Django App for Advanced Election Auditing"</p>
<p>There are other good election-related talks there, and lots of other great content, so come by if you're registered, and register if you can.</p>
<p>See the details at <a href="http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2009/public/schedule/detail/8403" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>en.oreilly.<wbr/>com/oscon2009/<wbr/>public/<wbr/>schedule/<wbr/>detail/<wbr/>8403</a></p>ElectionAudits in Python Magazine2009-05-06T23:36:25.880578+00:002009-05-06T23:37:53.295900+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2009-05-06:/+announcement/2657Neal McBurnetthttps://launchpad.net/~nealmcb<p>The April 2009 issue of Python Magazine has an interview with Neal McBurnett about ElectionAudits. It is available from the site as a paid pdf download at <a href="http://pymag.phparch.com/c/issue/view/96" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>pymag.phparch.<wbr/>com/c/issue/<wbr/>view/96</a> (68 pages in the April issue, which also includes other voting coverage, like Mitch Trachtenberg's open source Ballot Browser!).</p>Talk on ElectionAudits at OSCON this summer2009-03-19T16:58:05.227607+00:002009-03-19T16:58:05.182413+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2009-03-19:/+announcement/2263Neal McBurnetthttps://launchpad.net/~nealmcb<p>Neal McBurnett will be giving a talk on at OSCON 2009 - the O'Reilly Open Source Convention.<br/>
The title is "ElectionAudits: a Django App for Advanced Election Auditing"</p>
<p>The convention is July 20-24 in San Jose, CA. Here is the talk description:</p>
<p>The open source ElectionAudits software was used in Boulder Colorado's groundbreaking election audit in 2008. Recent advances in auditing practices can help increase confidence in elections. This new Django-based app ties together voter-verified paper ballots, batch reporting, verifiably random selection of batches, hand counts, and statistical analysis. Come, and help audit in your state!</p>Ars Technica writeup2009-01-08T18:40:52.367658+00:002009-01-08T18:43:11.256815+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2009-01-08:/+announcement/1766Neal McBurnetthttps://launchpad.net/~nealmcb<p>Ryan Paul from Ars Technica did a nice writeup of ElectionAudits:</p>
<p>Open source auditing tool boosts election integrity<br/>
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081221-open-source-auditing-tool-boosts-election-integrity.html" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>arstechnica.<wbr/>com/news.<wbr/>ars/post/<wbr/>20081221-<wbr/>open-source-<wbr/>auditing-<wbr/>tool-boosts-<wbr/>election-<wbr/>integrity.<wbr/>html</a></p>ElectionAudits used in Boulder 2008 General Election Audit2008-11-14T01:17:39.372493+00:002008-11-14T01:19:05.014414+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2008-11-14:/+announcement/1426Neal McBurnetthttps://launchpad.net/~nealmcb<p>See the full pre-audit reports and selection results at <a href="http://bcn.boulder.co.us/~neal/elections/boulder-audit-08-11/" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>bcn.boulder.<wbr/>co.us/~<wbr/>neal/elections/<wbr/>boulder-<wbr/>audit-08-<wbr/>11/</a><br/>
More details to come.</p>ElectionAudits featured in Launchpad News2008-11-12T15:10:17.678350+00:002008-11-12T15:10:17.577411+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2008-11-12:/+announcement/1417Neal McBurnetthttps://launchpad.net/~nealmcb<p>Matthew Revell interviewed me at <a href="http://news.launchpad.net/projects/electionaudits" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>news.launchpad.<wbr/>net/projects/<wbr/>electionaudits</a><br/>
It goes in to the background on the project and where we need help.</p>
<p>Thanks, Matthew!</p>ElectionAudits version 0.8 released2008-10-23T20:28:43.042120+00:002008-10-23T20:34:06.073233+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2008-10-23:/+announcement/1291Neal McBurnetthttps://launchpad.net/~nealmcb<p>This release presents selection statistics for each contest, and many other improvements have been made. See</p>
<p> <a href="https://launchpad.net/electionaudits/trunk/0.8" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/launchpad.<wbr/>net/electionaud<wbr/>its/trunk/<wbr/>0.8</a></p>
<p>A demo site is up at <a href="http://neal.mcburnett.org/electionaudits/demo/" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>neal.mcburnett.<wbr/>org/electionaud<wbr/>its/demo/</a><br/>
See the Downloads page to get the whole package.</p>
<p>For more information about ElectionAudits, see the home page:</p>
<p> <a href="http://neal.mcburnett.org/electionaudits/" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>neal.mcburnett.<wbr/>org/electionaud<wbr/>its/</a></p>Preview release2008-10-02T14:12:19.039414+00:002008-10-02T14:12:18.902175+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2008-10-02:/+announcement/1185Neal McBurnetthttps://launchpad.net/~nealmcb<p>A preview release of the software is now up on launchpad.net. Here is the initial README file.</p>
<p>-------<wbr/>-------<wbr/>-------<wbr/>-------<wbr/>---</p>
<p>The ElectionAudits software project is designed to help audit<br/>
elections with good statistical confidence. It is provided in support<br/>
of the</p>
<p> Principles and Best Practices for Post-Election Audits<br/>
<a href="http://electionaudits.org/principles" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>electionaudits.<wbr/>org/principles</a></p>
<p>Authors<br/>
=======<br/>
Neal McBurnett</p>
<p>Copyright<br/>
=========<br/>
Copyright 2008 Neal McBurnett</p>
<p>ElectionAudits is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify<br/>
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by<br/>
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or<br/>
(at your option) any later version.</p>
<p>This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,<br/>
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of<br/>
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the<br/>
GNU General Public License for more details.</p>
<p>You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License<br/>
along with this program. If not, see <<a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>www.gnu.<wbr/>org/licenses/</a>>.</p>
<p>See the file COPYING for the full license.</p>
<p>Requirements<br/>
============</p>
<p>Python (developed with python version 2.5, but should work with 2.3)<br/>
python-lxml (xml parsing package)<br/>
Django 1.0 # makeauditunits.py could be separated out from this pretty easily<br/>
sqlite3</p>
<p>Helpful but optional Django apps:<br/>
lukeplant_<wbr/>me_uk.django.<wbr/>validator for automatic xhtml validation<br/>
django_<wbr/>extensions for ease in development and documentation</p>
<p>It has been tested on Ubuntu Linux, but shouldn't be hard to get<br/>
running on OSX or Windows.</p>
<p>Versions, Bug reports<br/>
=======<wbr/>=======<wbr/>=======<br/>
The software uses launchpad.net for project support. Visit</p>
<p> <a href="https://launchpad.net/electionaudits" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/launchpad.<wbr/>net/electionaud<wbr/>its</a></p>
<p>to get the latest version or report bugs. It uses the "Bazaar"<br/>
distributed version control software, making it easy for you to<br/>
contribute.</p>
<p>Components:<br/>
===========</p>
<p>makeauditunits.py<br/>
=================<br/>
A program to parse election results data into easily<br/>
manipulated databases and clean csv files.</p>
<p>Currently supported: Hart InterCivic Tally "cumulative" reports in xml<br/>
(crystal-reports) format (including all options: Absentee, Early and<br/>
Election day, and the info box).</p>
<p>Use the --help option to print usage instructions:</p>
<p>$ ./makeauditunits --help</p>
<p>Test data is provided, so you can just run</p>
<p>$ cd audittools<br/>
$ ./manage.py syncdb<br/>
$ ../makeaudituni<wbr/>ts.py ../testdata/<wbr/>testcum.<wbr/>xml</p>
<p>or if you have some incremental reports:</p>
<p>$ makeauditunits -s cumulative-<wbr/>pe-s23-<wbr/>b005-m800.<wbr/>xml cumulative-<wbr/>pe-s24-<wbr/>b006-m803.<wbr/>xml cumulative-<wbr/>pe-s25-<wbr/>b007-m804.<wbr/>xml</p>
<p>electionaudit module<br/>
=======<wbr/>=======<wbr/>======</p>
<p>Graphical exploration and entry of information, via a<br/>
Django-based web site.</p>
<p>Usage:</p>
<p>First run the internal django server:</p>
<p>$ cd audittools<br/>
$ ./manage.py syncdb</p>
<p>$ ./manage.py runserver</p>
<p>Then, in a browser, visit the main URL, e.g.</p>
<p> <a href="http://127.0.0.1:8000/" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>127.0.0.<wbr/>1:8000/</a></p>
<p>to see the Audit Reports for the various Contests, etc.</p>
<p>See doc/model_graph.png for a diagram of the various database tables<br/>
and associated fields and relationships.</p>
<p>See <a href="http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>127.0.0.<wbr/>1:8000/<wbr/>admin/</a> (using the username and password<br/>
you entered during the "syncdb" step) to enter new data, and<br/>
<a href="http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/doc/" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>127.0.0.<wbr/>1:8000/<wbr/>admin/doc/</a> for more documentation on the data models<br/>
and various available views of the information.</p>
<p>Features: self-validation of all xhtml pages generated: see<br/>
a report of any errors at</p>
<p> <a href="http://127.0.0.1:8000/validator/" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>127.0.0.<wbr/>1:8000/<wbr/>validator/</a></p>