Offline Mode

With regards to a (hopefully) upcoming end of Covid we should think about how make wahlfang still relevant at that point. An important aspect would be to make it easy to use in offline, in person elections as a convenience improvement. This could include counting votes as well as providing voting options that cannot be efficiently implemented with a traditional, paper based election such as Single Transferable Vote #19.

One feature that could improve these offline elections is to be able to dynamically generate new Voter QR codes in the management UI. This would enable an election manager to pass through the rows in an in-person assembly, let everyone scan their !individual! QR code and then proceed to vote.

One major aspect that we might need to improve is to enable wahlfang to run in areas without stable internet. This could be done by adding a new Javascript based UI as an alternative that only communicates with the backend via RESTful calls and WebSocket updates. This would also make the implementation of the above feature way easier.

This issue should be seen as a tracker of which features / improvements would need to be done to make offline elections comfortable and feasible with wahlfang.