allc / Voting-Stuff

Voting Stuff

How to run?

1. Install the dependencies with pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Put config.json and secrets.json in /instance

3. Initialise the database with python -m flask init-db

4. Run the app with python -m flask run

   Set environment variable OAUTHLIB_RELAX_TOKEN_SCOPE=1 and run python -m flask run

   If on HTTP, also set OAUTHLIB_INSECURE_TRANSPORT=1, optionally set FLASK_ENV=development for debug mode

   • In PowerShell: $env:OAUTHLIB_RELAX_TOKEN_SCOPE=1
   • On Linux: OAUTHLIB_RELAX_TOKEN_SCOPE=1 python -m flask run

5. Set up Microsoft Forms with one only free-text question being the voter ID (for public forms, private forms will use username part of logged in email as voter ID (assuming only one "@" in those email addresses)), other questions can be rankings or choices.

6. In Power Automate (only supported on Work or School account), create a flow that triggers on new form responses, and get the response details, then send a POST request to /api/ballot-form with the body of String(form_body), and the headers containing X-API-Key with the value in secrets.json