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Incorrect. The voting page most certainly does confirm your vote, twice. If you hit next without selecting anything it states "You have opted to not vote for any of the candidates." This is a valid option for those that want to vote but dislike all potential candidates. That page indicates you must approve the action in the same way you would a normal vote; by hitting the "Next" button again to cast the vote and get your unique verify value.

If you didn't get a confirmation string (~20 characters) your vote didn't cast, and your vote token is still valid. At any time before you get that 20 character string, you can re-start. It's setup that way in case your browser or network has an issue and disconnects you mid-vote.

The creation of your vote and destruction of your voting token is an atomic action. Meaning if anything goes wrong, your vote token is still valid and can be used to vote later, once the problem has been resolved.
I'm sure you are probably right about this, but I do not remember getting to the confirmation string step. I'm pretty sure (but didn't take screenshots and there's no way to go back and see now), that once I saw "you deciced to vote for no one", I clicked the back button in my browser.

It's sort of academic now I suppose, and I have no way to double check. Oh well, thanks for the information anyway!

Edit: After doing a test with the test vote Joerg set up, I guess I must have clicked past the confirmation screen. No excuses, the voting system is really pretty easy, but I did have some screaming kids in the background.

Last edited by shawnjefferson; 2013-05-06 at 04:00.
 

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