On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:32 PM, Daniel Bwente <[email protected]> wrote: > Cavin > My understanding was a political party is made up of Tom, Dick and Harry, > together read as 'The public', then i saw this and your response left me > stumped.... > "What the site does is it lets each and every african man or woman with a > mobile phone in ANY african country report the election results at their > polling station at the end of voting. The site then tally's up the results > using various techniques." > But I digress > The gist of my submission is whoever inputs the data has to do so > truthfully. > if you prefer someone named "Political Party" Or Jack Daniels that's > another matter. > At the end of the day the site aims to address rigging by wrongful tallying > of votes if "Political Party" or "Jack Daniels can still enter inflated > results then.....? > I do maintain the site is a brilliant concpet whose excellence can be > measured by the accuracy of the Data input.
There is a FOSS solution to this problem, already built (in UG as well) it's called Swiftriver. -- Cheers, McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel _______________________________________________ The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any way. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
