User:NeddySeagoon/Election Officials HOWTO

Overview
The elections project manages the two regular elections in Gentoo every year, for council and trustees and occasional developer wide votes. This page describes what election officials do and how they do it. The 'what' is described first and the HOWTO follows in chronological order.

Throughout the election, officials answer any questions the electorate may have on the conduct of the election.

Nomination Period
A the start of the election, the officials create the web page to track potential candidates, their acceptance status and links to the candidates manifestos.

Throughout the Nomination Period officials maintain the page with properly submitted information. What that means is spelt out in the election calling notice. Its usually mails to a a public mailing list.

Officials may issue nomination reminders via the email lists and/or IRC /topic.

Voting Period
Officials may issue voting reminders via the email lists and/or IRC /topic.

Some elections permit votes to be submitted by gpg signed email. Election officials validate the signatures (but not the ballot) as these votes arrive.

The Count
The -infra contact harvests correctly submitted votes from developers home directories, merges any validated email votes and deposits the output of this process in the election officials home directories on Woodpecker.