Posted by pjcdawkins on May 24, 2011 at 11:47am
Election will be a module for Drupal 7.x providing online voting in both referendums and STV elections.
It will be trialled in a production environment in February-March 2012. A public release is not expected until at least that time.
The module will be used by a large university's student union.
Features planned will include:
- Nominations including the ability for administrators to approve or reject nominees.
- STV vote counting according to the ERS97 standard, or at least the ability to export an OpenSTV ballot file (.blt) at the close of voting.
- Referendums: voting yes or no to a single proposal.
- Eligibility rules: set up of conditions on voter eligibility. Conditions are defined in code and they can be added by other modules.
Module dependencies
Election makes heavy use of the Entity API module. It will depend on Views.
Module integration
Currently Election has some integration with Pathauto (and by extension, Token) and Views. It also uses the Date Popup part of the Date module.