''consensus'' is a web application designed to help organisations hold polls and elections to find a consensus amongst its stakeholders.

This project is in its very early stages.

''consensus'' will provide an environment where organisations may hold elections, some features for the future:

• When setting up an election, those who are eligible to vote will be very easily specified, either by the user's username, or the role that they hold in the organisation

• Any polling strategy may be used, be it FPTP (Simple Majority), STV or a method which is custom to your organisation (some coding to a published interface required ;-) )

• Easy to install and administer on most platforms (*BSD, Linux, OS X and Windows will hopefully be supported).

Currently, consensus does not support secure voting (in the academic sense). Elections are not anonymous, and currently they are suceptible to tampering by whoever administers the consesus system.

• virtualenv $venv

• cd consensus/

• $venv/bin/python setup.py develop

• $venv/bin/initialize_consensus_db development.ini

• $venv/bin/pserve development.ini