HTML/Ballot/Trusting version 0.01
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    A simple module for inseucre web ballots.

    This is a very beta version that will mature over the
    next week or so.  Please let me know how it breaks.

    Features:

    *   a HTML page of voting options and one of the results of votes so far
        is generated from a single HTML template, and it is in these pages
        that ballot status is maintained, so no additional file access is
        required. This may be extended to include a ballot `time out'.

    *   HTML output into the template is minimal, but all unique entities
        are given a "class" attribute for easy CSS re-definitions.

    *   simple bar charts of results are generated using HTML. Options to
        have graphs based on single-pixels, or using the "GD" interface will
        arrive some time in the future.

    *   no test is made of who is voting, so users may vote any number of
        times, or may even vote (and surely will) thousands of times using a
        "LWP" hack. A more secure version is being constructed, which uses
        simple e-mail authentication of users, sending ony one voting
        password to any e-mail address: this may appear as
        "HTML::Ballot::MoreCynical".

INSTALLATION

	To install this module, do the usual:

	   perl Makefile.PL
	   make					- nmake on Win32
	   make test			- etc
	   make install

	Then please read the POD.

DEPENDENCIES

	As well as the pragmas 'strict' and 'warnings', this module
	requires

		CGI.pm,
		HTML::EasyTemplate version 0.985 or higher,
		HTML::Entities.

AUTHOR

	Lee Goddard - lgoddard@cpan.org

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

	This module and all associated code is Copyright (C) Lee Goddard 2001.
	All rights reserved.

	This is free software and may be used under the same terms as Perl itself
	with the added condition that it not be used in a commercial setting, to
	make money, either directly or indirectly, without the advanced and
	explicit prior signed permission of the author.
