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Selectricity is under active development and new features are added each month. That said, currently released features have already seen thousands of users of a variety of types and are well tested. We understand that we're building election software and, as a result, we're very conservative about releasing new features. Everything on the "live" site is tested in a large number of real world environments over weeks or months. | Selectricity is under active development and new features are added each month. That said, currently released features have already seen thousands of users of a variety of types and are well tested. We understand that we're building election software and, as a result, we're very conservative about releasing new features. Everything on the "live" site is tested in a large number of real world environments over weeks or months. | ||
Code is available, under a free software | Code is available, under a free software/open source license in a source code repository here. Released features are listed above. | ||
Features currently under testing include: | |||
* Selectricity Full Elections: A more sophisticated interface to to the voting machinery more suitable to more organized Election. These election can have voter rolls, anonymous and voter verifiable ballots, and more detailed feedback. | |||
* Selectricity Embeddable Election: We are currently testing a version of Selectricity that allows users to simply embed elections onto their own websites or blogs. Additionally, it allows users to upload custom themes so that the look and feel more closely matches their own communities web-presence. | |||
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Up-to-date information on the precise state of current Selectricity development can be found on at [[Selectricity/Status]]. | Up-to-date information on the precise state of current Selectricity development can be found on at [[Selectricity/Status]]. | ||
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:''Has it been tested in a community? Where, exactly, and what was learned?'' | :''Has it been tested in a community? Where, exactly, and what was learned?'' | ||
QuickVotes have been used by thousands of individuals and groups for a | QuickVotes have been used by thousands of individuals and groups for a variety of different decisions. Many users have used the system to select meeting times. | ||
Full elections, currently unreleased but being tested, have been used by several communities including the non-profit's Students for Free Culture and Sugar Labs to elect their boards of directors. We are currently in conversations with several universities about running student government elections. | Full elections, currently unreleased but being tested, have been used by several communities including the non-profit's Students for Free Culture and Sugar Labs to elect their boards of directors. We are currently in conversations with several universities about running student government elections. |