initial working state

README.md

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+# aBot engine
+
+- Make voting questions in simple text files
+- single choice, multiple choice and open text questions supported
+    - read more from example questions sets
+- Preview form online
+- Get tokens for voting in command line
+- Send unique URLs to your voters (mailing example script included)
+- Summarize results in the command line
+
+- Online part runs with python3 + flask + gunicorn
+- Command line tools python3
+
+
+
+## Usage instructions
+
+- Install requirements `./install.me`
+- Start server `./start.me`
+- Create questions in `questions/my_poll.txt`
+- Have `draft: true` in the questions, and view the poll at
+  [preview](http://localhost:8041/preview/my_poll)
+- Change to `draft: false` to enable voting
+- Add tokens for the vote:
+  `./manager token --prefix http://localhost:8041 my_poll`
+- Open the link to vote
+- Get summary of votes: `./manager summary my_poll`
+
+