ElectionAudits 0.9 "boulder"

Improved and polished a bit based on use in Boulder election. Added help for contest selections; added a results summary page; improved unit tests; fixed html validation error, etc.

Still not as easy as it could be for novice users, but it helped in the Boulder election a lot!

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ElectionAudits
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0.9
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boulder
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Neal McBurnett
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2008-12-04 <email address hidden>

 * setup.py: version 0.9

 * electionaudits/models.py (Contest.select_units):
 Add "selected" field to Contest
 Use selected contests, rather than hard-coding selections in results view.
 Factor out /reports/ code to provide a list of contest_batches for
 the contest.

 * electionaudits/views.py (results):
 Add /results/ view to show main results and statistics.
 Use selected contests, rather than hard-coding selections

 (Contest.stats):
 Add stats() parameters to override confidence or s (WPM) values.

 * doc/index.html:
 Bring project home page under source control

 * electionaudits/tests.py (TestCsv.test_csv):
 Add csv test
 Add tests for /selections/ and /results/, including selection and
 random seed

 * root/templates/base.html:
 Fix html validation error: commented-out </p>

2008-11-15 <email address hidden>

 This is the state of the software as it was used to publish
 the initial reports and selections on Thursday/Friday.

 * electionaudits/templates/electionaudits/reports.html:
 Add random selection of contests

 * electionaudits/templates/electionaudits/report.html:
 Add /selections/ url as a clone of /reports/ with random input

 * electionaudits/templates/electionaudits/index.html:
 Customize home page for Boulder
 Change Home page link on base.html, comment out other links

 Update README, ToDo (as usual....)

2008-11-13 <email address hidden>

 * electionaudits/models.py (Contest.priority):
 Add random selection, threshholds and priorities to /reports/ view
 and Contest class.

 * electionaudits/views.py (report):
 Use custom view for /audit_report/<contest>/
 Add threshhold and priority (threshhold/random), and sort by priority
 Return blanks in ssr and priority if seed is not 15 chars long

 * root/templates/base.html:
 display links across one line at the top

 * electionaudits/tests.py (SimpleTest.test_reports):
 resume tests of diffs against report.html

2008-11-12 <email address hidden>

 * root/templates/base.html:
 cleaner mirroring: style.css => /media/style.css
  and add trailing slash to urls like /report/1

 * electionaudits/parsers.py (parse_xml_crystal):
 Normalize contest names and candidate names: strip extra white space
 in case different databases vary them for subtle formatting reasons

 * electionaudits/erandom.py (ssr):
 Add ssr (Sum of Square Roots) random number generator (Rivest)

 * electionaudits/models.py (Batch.ssr):
 Add NEGEXP threshhold for ContestBatch to compare to ssr (commented out)

 * electionaudits/templates/electionaudits/report.html:
 Put contest name first in <title>
 Don't sort by batch object - makes order unstable

 * electionaudits/templates/electionaudits/reports.html:
 Comment out references to PPEBWR stats

2008-11-10 <email address hidden>

 * electionaudits/util.py (AuditUnit.update):
 Allow commas in vote counts, e.g. 1,345

 * electionaudits/models.py (ContestBatch):
 Add "proportion" to Contest for scaling selection numbers
 Add random_seed, for use of verifiably seeded RNGs like Rivest's SSR
 Add "selected" to ContestBatch
 Add "notes" to ContestBatch and Batch

2008-11-05 <email address hidden>

 * electionaudits/models.py (Contest):
 Add confidence and overall_margin to Contest and use them
 in calculating and displaying statistics.

 * electionaudits/admin.py (CountyElectionAdmin):
 Allow all contest margins, confidence levels to be audited inline by
 linking them to the appropriate CountyElection and using ContestInline

 * electionaudits/util.py (AuditUnit.__init__):
 Create election and contest database records when first mentioned,
 so they are created and listed in sequence.

 * electionaudits/templates/electionaudits/report.html:
 Clarify statistics more
 Improve README

2008-11-03 <email address hidden>

 * electionaudits/tests.py (SimpleTest.test_reports):
 Add some unit tests: run via `manage.py test electionaudits`

 * setup.py:
 Generate sdist from original trunk rather than a different bzr branch,
 to avoid bzr munging of mod times.
 See https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/245170
 Drop use of find_packages, which was bringing in unneeded files

 * README (FAQ):
 Begin an FAQ

2008-11-02 <email address hidden>

 * electionaudits/varsize.py (plotprobs):
 Fix hidden dependency: Only import pylab when necessary
 drop unused import matplotlib.numerix

 * electionaudits/views.py (stats):
 make default batch size distribution more like boulder county 2008

 * root/settings.py:
 Configure CsrfMiddleware to avoid CSRF attacks with POSTs

2008-11-01 <email address hidden>

 * README (C):
 Improve installation and use instructions in README
 Version 0.9.dev-r47

2008-10-30 <email address hidden>

 * electionaudits/views.py (parse):
 New /parse/ form to parse incoming directory with -s -c

 * electionaudits/templates/electionaudits/stats.html:
 Call Ad-Hoc Contest Statistics a "Calculator" and fix title

2008-10-30 <email address hidden>

 * README (C):
 Document new -c and directory options in README

2008-10-29 <email address hidden>

 * electionaudits/parsers.py (parse):
 if a directory arg is given to parse, parse each file in the directory
 implement --chronological option and change -c to be that, not --contest

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