Usage

The Page Organisation

At the top of the page three tabs are presented.

• The Home tab brings you back to the front page of the application where you will see some text explaining what this application is about.
• The Elections tab shows you the list of all the election present in the database, with their name, year and status.
• The Results tab gives you a list of links pointing to the result page of each election whose results have been published.

If you are an administrator you will also see one additional tab:

• Admin tab takes you to the administrative page where you can create a new election, edit an existing election, regenerate the cache for an election, review the election, and see the stats for an election.

Finding Open Elections

Open elections can be found on the Elections tab. They are designated with the following image in the Votes Open column:

If the election hasn’t opened yet or is already closed it will be designated with the following image in the Votes Open column:

Vote

If an election is open, it is possible to vote on it.

Go to the Elections tab at the top of the page and click on the name of an election which has the following symbol in the Open column of the table:

This will bring you to the page where you can vote.

In front of you, in the middle of the page, all the candidates for the election you selected are presented on a white background. By hovering your mouse over the image, you will be able to see two icons:

On the bottom left is a google icon.

If you click on the google icon,you will be able to see a bigger and more detailed version of the image.

On the bottom right is a check icon.

If you click on this check icon, the corresponding image will be selected to be voted upon.

As you select candidates, these candidates will disapear from the central list of candidates and move to the grey column on the right where all the candidates you selected are shown.

At the top of this selection, within the grey column on the right, is displayed the number of candidates you selected versus the maximum number of candidates you are allowed to select.

Once your selection is made, simply click on Submit Votes on the grey column on the right.

You will be brought back to the list of elections and with a message thanking you for voting.

Note

You may vote on as many or as little candidates as you like up to the maximum allowed per elections. If you select less than the maximum number of candidates you will be able to come back on the election page and complete your vote (thus allowing you to complete your vote spread over multiple sessions).

Warning

You cannot change your vote once you have submitted it.

Finding Published Elections

Published elections are elections whose results have been made public.

To find all the elections whose results are public, go to the Elections tab at the top of the page.

The election whose results are public are marked with:

under the column Published in the table on this page.

Under the same column Published, the elections whose results are not yet public are marked with the symbol:

Consulting The Results Of An Election

You can find the list of all the elections whose results are published by clicking on the tab Results at the top of the page.

There you can click on the election of your interest and access the corresponding result page.

The result page will show you a table with for all the candidates, their name, number of votes and thumbnails ordered by decreasing number of votes.

Statistics of An Election

You can find the list of all the elections whose results are published by clicking on the tab Results at the top of the page.

There you can click on the stats link of the election of your choice.

This page displays some statistics about the election : - Number of participants - Number of votes, - Maximum number of vote per person - Bar graph indicating how many people voted on how many candidates, for

example: 3 persons voted on 4 candidates while 10 voted only on 2 candidates.