#34 Voting app should include confirmation page
Closed: Fixed None Opened 16 years ago by pfrields.

The voting application should return a confirmation page to ensure the voter's confidence in his/her ballot data. For example, in large lists of candidates, it is possible a user can miss a check box. Another recent online vote in which I participated had this feature, and I think most users would appreciate the chance to double-check their vote in this regard.


Reassigning to abadger1999, so that he can evaluate this request

This is definitely a good feature to have. We can take one of two courses to implement it:
1) Add it to the current voting app.
2) Add it to the list of things that we need the next generation app to do.

It's not an essential feature so defering to the next gen app is tempting but I also don't have anyone lined up to create that app (including me) so it could be a while before we get it.

It wouldn't be incredibly hard for someone to hack this into the current app. Maybe three days to a week for a volunteer getting to know the code and add it in their spare time. Currently each page is a separate cgi script so we could just stick one extra script in that confirms the values, a bunch of hidden fields that reflect the values that were selected, and a pair of buttons to press to either confirm the vote or take you back to the original page.

I'll put this out on the fedora-infrastructure list as some low hanging fruit for now. If no one is interested, I'll see if I can work on it before the next round of elections takes place. (I won't have time for it before the upcoming docs election, though.)

Not going to happen by Fedora 8.

Good news! Nigel Jones has started working on the next gen voting app. He currently has a test server running at: http://kokako.jnet.net.nz/

Code:
https://fedorahosted.org/elections/browser/trunk

This won't be ready for F9 but we're going to see if we can get it ready in time for the post-F9 elections (Board, etc).

/me knocks on wood, crosses fingers, and hunts for a four leaf clover.

Replying to [comment:6 nigelj]:

I've added a ticket for this at https://fedorahosted.org/elections/ticket/2
I just closed the quoted ticket on the Elections Trac - Yippee

Woohoo (fixed in elections, it seems)

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