vosnap - take a snapshot of voter input
vosnap service-name
vosnap --help
Service utility vosnap takes a snapshot of voter input. It reads the input from the input store, and writes it to the snapshot output store. In the process it creates a new snap directory, the path of which it prints to standard out.
The electoral service is specified by its service-name address.
The newly
created snap directory (assuming default configuration of
the electoral service) is:
/var/cache/votorola/subserver-name/snapout/service-name/snap_date.
Use vocount(1) to tally the results of an election, after taking a snapshot of the election with vosnap.
Use volist(1) to compile a list of voters, after taking a snapshot of the electoral register with vosnap.
See Votorola(7) for an overview of Votorola.