EZelect 0.1.0

EZelect is a PHP script useful for conducting Web-based elections for small organizations. EZelect is very simple and easy to use.
The script is originally written for and used in the 2005/2006 presidential election of Berkeley Chinese Students and Scholars Association (BCSSA).
Main features:
- No database needed. All information is stored in plain-text files
- Works on Unix servers like Linux, Solaris
- Authenticating voters by their email. Can be configured to allow votes from users with emails like @organization.org. One email address casts at most one vote.
- Supports two types of elections, one letting each voter votes for one of multiple candidates, another letting each voter approve or dis-approve a single candidate. It should be easy to add more types of elections.
- Outputs all votes in plain text file. Use of grep to process the results should be enough in most cases.
Usage:
- Customize the beginning part of ezelect.php to suit your needs.
- Make sure the data dir ($datadir) exists and is writable by the web server process.
- Make sure the local host has an MTA running on port 25.
- Access index.html from your webserver to test the election.
- Do some further customization and run the election!
- Collect results in $datadir. Each file, named with the users email address, records votes from the users. The only thing useful is the 1st line, which contains the *confirmed* vote from the user. A user can have at most one confirm vote. If the 1st line is _ _, then the user didnt confirm any vote and should not be counted. A simple command to collect all results:
find . -type f -exec head -1 {} ;