verify-vote

Mock up to verify a voter's ballot choice via SMS

by Mark Silverberg of Social Health Insights for Danny Thiemann of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law

Data Source

Publicly accessible Google spreadsheet at https://docs.google.com/a/gwmail.gwu.edu/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvEbeLXW2uw0dHFmbUU1cHZIWVlzZk1PT2hDNnZWX0E#gid=0

Demonstration

• You can interact with this app by calling/texting one of the endpoints below.

Service	Number/Name	Voice/Text
Call/SMS	(260) 207-4235	Both
Skype	+990009369990065278	Voice only
SIP	sip:9990065278@sip.tropo.com	Voice only
iNum	+883510001392933	Voice only
Jabber	verifyvote@tropo.im	Text only

• You can also see the data source (details above) by visting one of the following web endpoints in your browser
  • /ballots show all ballots in JSON format
  • /ballot/321 show the details for a specific ballot in JSON format

Steps to recreate

1. You will need to have the Heroku Toolbelt installed first.

2. Drop into your command line and run the following commands:

• git clone http://github.com/marks/verify-vote.git --depth 1
• cd verify-vote

3. Edit the config.yml.exmaple to use your own API username and password and rename the file to config.yml

4. Back at the command line, issue:

• heroku create
• git push heroku master

5. Log in or sign up for Tropo and create a new WebAPI application. For the App URL, enter in your Heroku app's URL and append /index.json to the end of it.

6. That's it! Call in, use, and tinker with your app!

Dev Notes

• Create tunnel for local development (local sinatra port = 4567), more information available at https://www.tropo.com/docs/webapi/using_tunnlr_reverse_ssh.htm
  • ssh -nNt -g -R :12748:0.0.0.0:4567 tunnlr3492@ssh1.tunnlr.com
  • Set tropo endpoint to http://web1.tunnlr.com:12748/index.json