Voter Assistance Application

Installation

OS requirements: Postgresql 9.4+, redis-server, Python 2.7, python-virtualenv, psycopg2:

cd /var/www
git clone [github_url]
virtualenv vaa_env
source vaa_env/bin/activate
cd vaa
pip install -r requirements.txt
sudo su - postgres
psql
CREATE DATABASE vaa;
CREATE ROLE vaa WITH LOGIN PASSWORD 'vaa1234';
GRANT ALL ON DATABASE vaa TO vaa;
\q
exit
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py createsuperuser
# make an election, using shell or Django Admin (yes, there should be a management command for this)
python manage.py qimport questions.csv [election_slug] # replace with real election slug
python manage.py cand_import cand.csv [election_slug] # replace with real election slug

Use

There are two management commands of note, qimport and cand_import. They take csv files as arguments as well as the slug of the election the data are meant for. cand.csv and questions.csv show the format. Google docs outputs the proper encoding for latin-1 characters.

To invite candidates to participate, go to /admin/questions/candidate/, select the candidates to invite and select "Senda inngangstölvupóst" from the menu and press Go.

NOTE

I have not checked if there are any changes required for higher versions of Django.