We found phpESP to be pretty useful in day-to-day administration of our hostel. We used it for everything from actual voting of council members, to public-survey for deciding mess menu to booking tickets for various hostel events.
http://phpesp.sourceforge.net http://phpesp.sourceforge.net/demo
I don't think it has anonymity by default; but if you know a bit of PHP, it shouldn't be too difficult to hack. In fact a simple SQL-trigger to overwrite the appropriate data-base column would be enough.
Regards, farazs
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Kussh Singh kussh.singh@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Dinesh,
Saw your blog entry on electoral reforms. Is there any FOSS software which will help the voting process? I think we really need such enabling tools/ category of FOSS softwares. Once it becomes easy and convenient to vote, and it is ingrained as a habit from childhood, maybe some of your concerns will be addressed and India will become a REAL democracy rather than a SHAM one it is at present.
The software would fulfill a need in myriad applications e.g. in 1 Housing societies AGMs 2 Company/stockholders Annual General Meetings 3 in panchayats 4 in classrooms 5 in companies, schools, adventure groups, theater audiences, neighbourhood meetings, in ngos etc etc --i.e. wherever collective decision making is required.
I tried searching on http://directory.fsf.org and other places but have yet to find such a software. Maybe somebody will make it someday
Almost all Swiss citizens participate in voting on important issues thru the sms/mobile route and they vote atleast once a month since it is so convenient. This is what I learned from a person who came to tell us about RTI from the CHRI -- www.humanrightsinitiative.org.
Kussh
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