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Registered: 2011-11-02

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Online Voting Software/Systems

Hi all,

I'm not entirely sure whether this is the right board for this question but of all boards in the arch forums it seems most appropriate to me.

I am looking for an online voting software or system, preferably one that runs on Linux (but much of it might be php/python/perl software running with apache and the appropriate script engine and therefore system independent anyway). All a google search turned up for me was a list of software http://www.linuxlinks.com/Web/Portal/Voting/ which however seems somewhat outdated (most of the projects seem to be dead with most recent versions from 2007 or 2004 or 2001; some of the links are broken) and some scholarly papers on the topic.

Does anyone know a more up to date list of such software or have a good specific suggestion.

(The purpose for which I need it is to set up a secret and secure, thus preferably with cryptographic keys, voting software for a small or rather small organization. It's therefore neither reasonable to try to buy commercial software nor to try to develop such a software so I tried to come up with a good suggestion but failed so far.)

Thanks; any suggestions, links, comments are appreciated.

fukawi2

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Re: Online Voting Software/Systems

Lime Survey may do what you're after. It's more for "Surveys" than "Voting", but voting is just a 1 question survey isn't it?

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rainbow flag

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Registered: 2011-11-02

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Re: Online Voting Software/Systems

Thanks fukawi2, LimeSurvey looks like a good solution; I just had a look at the manual - it seems to come with all the features necessary for a secret and secure election. I will give it a try.

Nevertheless, in case anyone knows of any further similar software, I'd welcome a link ...

Thanks.

Andrwe

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From: Leipzig/Germany

Registered: 2009-06-17

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Re: Online Voting Software/Systems

How about something like Doodle?
I've installed a dokuwiki-system with doodle2-plugin ( http://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:doodle2 ) for such votings at the company I'm working for.

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