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

Basic 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
• 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

Additional usage

During the poll, you can observe the vote counts:

• Add an observer token: ./manager token --prefix http://localhost:8041 --role observer my_poll
• Open the link to see vote counts
• If the question se allows voters to see results after casting their vote show_results: true, then observer can also see the results.