

UW Feds voting Feb. 10th, 2010 @ 12:29 pm



What amuses me though is that the ballots seem to be broken every year. Remember that year we had to use the "back" button to cast all our ballots? Ugh.



This year, it's PHP errors, as shown below. As I said on my own blog, this does not engender confidence in the democratic process.



Why is Feds voting broken every year? Why can't they design a single, good system and put it on the shelf to be used in every election?





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If you are a registered full-time UW student, but are not been able to cast a vote through our online system, please try voting off-line BY 4PM FEB 11TH. Offline voting is located in the SLC near the FEDS office. WATCARD REQUIRED FOR OFF-LINE VOTING. TO contact Chris Neal, the Chief Electoral Officer cneal@feds.ca, or on campus at ext 33880.



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You will vote on the following ballots:



1. At-Large Senate

2. Vice-President Internal

3. Vice-President Administration & Finance

4. President I am not currently a student, so I can't vote in the Feds election.What amuses me though is that the ballots seem to be broken every year. Remember that year we had to use the "back" button to cast all our ballots? Ugh.This year, it's PHP errors, as shown below. As I said on my own blog, this does not engender confidence in the democratic process.Why is Feds voting broken every year? Why can't they design a single, good system and put it on the shelf to be used in every election?From http://vote.feds.ca/ballot/instructions.php Leave a comment From: imack Date: February 11th, 2010 02:15 am (UTC) (Link)



It may look bad every year, but more often than not it's just superficial. Still, a couple of the major hurdles are:



-People who sit on election committees tend to be future lawyers and politicians, not future CTOs

-Setting up a FEDS election means the integration of 3 bureaucracies, FEDS, IST, and the registrars office

-Matching programs to FEDS constituencies is a non-trivial task, all those designer "interdisciplinary" programs tend to mean a couple hundred people will always fall through the cracks Reply ) ( Thread For what it's worth, the backend system is actually very reliable, the results are very reliable provided the election goes through. The front end is run by FEDS and the back is a pretty secure system run by IST.It may look bad every year, but more often than not it's just superficial. Still, a couple of the major hurdles are:-People who sit on election committees tend to be future lawyers and politicians, not future CTOs-Setting up a FEDS election means the integration of 3 bureaucracies, FEDS, IST, and the registrars office-Matching programs to FEDS constituencies is a non-trivial task, all those designer "interdisciplinary" programs tend to mean a couple hundred people will always fall through the cracks (Leave a comment)