A user can cast his vote by visiting this web platform. For web server scripting we have used python based web framework Django.
- Make sure you are connected to the internet.
- Install all the (pip) dependency packages (main packages are listed in
requirements.txt). - Locate
EMAIL_ADDRESSandEMAIL_PASSWORDvariable inElection/settings.pyfile and assign your valid credentials. (See References) - Make sure email sending is allowed (while development process sending email every time is not a good idea because API allows us to send email only for limited no. of times.).
For this make sure send_otp() method in views.py file looks like this:
...
[success, result] = send_email_otp(email_input)
# [success, result] = [True, '0']
... and get_parties() method in same file (views.py) looks like this:
...
send_email_private_key(request.session['email-id'], private_key)
# print(private_key)
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Locate
manage.pyfile and runpython manage.py runserverin the same directory. -
Locate the URL provided in the terminal and access that. by default it is http://127.0.0.1:8000.
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Why and How to add Email credentials:
How and Why: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRCJ6RtE3xU (Watch out first 2 minutes of this video)