Belenios

The API support has also been improved in order to support a future new version of the administration interface

Release of Belenios 1
20
The new release includes various improvements and fixes
The html tag
in election metadata is handled in more places
The monitoring has been improved with random orders of HTTP requests
A bug has been fixed in the computation of the Condorcet winners

Release of Belenios 1
19
In order to facilitate monitoring elections, pages served to credential authority and trustees are now constant
The instructions for the authorities have been updated and reinforced

Belenios 1
19 also solves several issues raised on GitHub, in particular regarding the mailto links
New languages have been added: Lithuanian, Spanish (Latin America)

We have deployed a new Belenios public server, hosted at OVH, which should (hopefully) offer better availability
New elections should now preferably be created on this server
Accounts and elections on the old server will not be automatically migrated to the new server
You will have to create a new account

The old server will remain online for a while but progressively, account creation and election creation will be disabled

Release of Belenios 1
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Belenios 1
18 now proposes the new voting booth by default
The new booth is prettier and more responsive, but may lack some translations; we invite administrators to use the booth preview feature to see if the new booth fits their needs
The old booth can still be selected on the question edition page

The new release also includes several bug fixes (e
g
case sensitivity issues in logins) and supports new operations on the REST API (under development)

Release of Belenios 1
17
One of the main changes in Belenios 1
17 is actually invisible to its users: the cryptographic operations have been modified to avoid (theoretical) weaknesses
In particular, the link between a ballot and the corresponding election has been strengthened

Moreover, Belenios now fully supports preferential elections tallied with the Condorcet-Schulze method
A new, user-friendly, voting interface has been developed to rank candidates
More information here

Finally, administrators accounts are now associated with a profile
As a consequence, administrators will be asked an e-mail address on first login if the system cannot determine one
This e-mail address is used to initialize the contact for new elections
The default public name of the administrator for new elections can also be modified

Release of Belenios 1
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Belenios now includes several new features

• A new voting interface has been introduced both for standard elections (where voters select candidates among a list) and Majority Judgement (where voters rank candidates)
• The default authentication for voters is now with an email with a short code during the voting process
• The previous default (an email with a complex password sent in advance) is still available, but needs an explicit action to be used
• Due to several requests,
  are now interpreted in the classical voting interface as line breaks in election names, descriptions, questions and answers
• We now welcome donations, in the first place to support our infrastructure costs and also to partly cover our development costs
  You will find here more information on how to donate and how donations are used

Release of Belenios 1
15
The new release of Belenios includes several features requested by users

• Belenios now officially support weighted votes
• In other words, voters may have several votes, according to the rules of the election
• You just have to indicate the number of votes of each voter (her "weight") in the electoral list, in the form mail,login,weight or mail,,weight
• Credentials and passwords now have a different format to avoid confusion
• So many elections were deleted by mistake
• we removed the misleading "archive" button in most cases
• Release of Belenios 1
  13
  The new release of Belenios suports two main new features:
• The aministrator interface is available in several languages and new languages have been introduced at least for the voter interface: Norwegian Bokmål (nb), Spanish (es), Ukrainian (uk), Czech (cs), Occitan (oc)
• Your help for translation is still welcome since several languages are incomplete and we continuously introduce new parts