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On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Alec Story <[email protected]> wrote:

> From the civs website:
>
> However, CIVS hasn't been stress-tested at 10,000 voters or higher. The
>> server is implemented in Perl, so it can easily handle 4,000 voters per
>> hour. If your voters don't show up faster than that, and they usually don't,
>> it should be fine no matter how many voters there are. If you want to have a
>> private poll, the system will only allow you to add 1,000 voters at a time,
>> but in principle you can have as many voters as you want. Note that using
>> the experimental proportional method for your poll can dramatically increase
>> the load on the CIVS server, so avoid that mode for large polls.
>
>
> So it sounds like it could handle your load, but I don't really know how
> happy the CS department would be...
> Professor Myers is pretty nice, so you could always ask him.  They also
> have a Spanish localization if you'd find that useful.
>
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Kevin Driscoll <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hey Gabriel,
>>
>> Another voting system discussed on this list is Condorcet Internet
>> Voting Service at Cornell:
>>
>> http://www.cs.cornell.edu/andru/civs.html
>>
>> Please keep us updated on the situation at your school. I am sorry to
>> hear that you are all having so much trouble.
>>
>> Kevin
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 1:46 PM,  <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Jeremy Baron <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi Gabriel,
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 14:52, Gabriel Perez <[email protected]>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > Hello,
>> >> [...]
>> >> > We are planning on holding electronic elections at our University
>> next
>> >> week
>> >> > to let the students and professors choose the next chancellor.
>> Although
>> >> the
>> >> > vote won't have any direct consequences we are hoping that if the
>> deputy
>> >> > chancellor loses by a huge margin and this gets media attention, the
>> >> board
>> >> > of trustees will be forced by public opinion to change the process or
>> at
>> >> > least choose a better candidate. But we need a trusted, open source
>> and
>> >> > secure platform for this election. We immediately thought of
>> Selectricity
>> >> > since we were familiar with it due to the board elections. Does
>> anybody
>> >> here
>> >> > work directly in Selectricity? Can anybody here contact Mako and ask
>> him
>> >> if
>> >> > he can help us?
>> >>
>> >> I imagine it would help (and speed things up) if you specified what
>> >> specifically you need. (from him or anyone)
>> >>
>> >> e.g. do you just want to know if it's ready for the extra load and
>> >> what the escalation procedure is if it breaks or do you need something
>> >> done ahead of the vote? are you looking to have your own one-off
>> >> instance just for this vote or you want to use the main
>> >> selectricity.org instance?
>> >>
>> >
>> > Well first of all we will need the vote to be created since election
>> > creation is not public yet. Also we would like to know if they can
>> handle
>> > the load. There are around 14,000 students and faculty at our school but
>> we
>> > really don't know how many of them would participate of the process. But
>> > most likely only a fraction of the students will participate. Using the
>> > selectricity.org instance would be perfect, there is no need to create
>> a new
>> > one.
>> >
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