cast GitHub usernames to lowercase

Signed-off-by: Michael Shen <mishen@umich.edu>

Author: mjlshen

elekto/models/meta.py

@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ def build(self):
         self.election['key'] = self.key
         self.election['description'] = self.description()
         self.election['results'] = self.results()
+        self.election['election_officers'] = [election_officer.lower() for election_officer in self.election['election_offiers']]
 
         if 'exception_due' not in self.election.keys():
             self.election['exception_due'] = self.election['start_datetime']
@@ -133,7 +134,9 @@ def results(self):
         return utils.parse_md(os.path.join(self.path, Election.RES))
 
     def voters(self):
-        return utils.parse_yaml(os.path.join(self.path, Election.VOT))
+        voters = utils.parse_yaml(os.path.join(self.path, Election.VOT))
+        voters['eligible_voters'] = [voter.lower() for voter in voters['eligible_voters']]
+        return voters
 
     def showfields(self):
         return dict.fromkeys(self.election['show_candidate_fields'], '')
@@ -148,6 +151,7 @@ def candidates(self):
             md = open(os.path.join(self.path, f)).read()
             try:
                 c = utils.extract_candidate_info(md)
+                c['ID'] = c['ID'].lower()
                 c['key'] = c['ID']
                 candidates.append(c)
             except:

elekto/utils.py

@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ def set_session(app):
         # if unable to fetch the user's info, set auth to False
         if user and user.token_expires_at and user.token_expires_at > datetime.now():
             F.g.user = user
+            F.g.user.username = F.g.user.username.lower()
             F.g.auth = True
             # Find all the user's past and all upcoming (meta only) elections
             query = SESSION.query(Election).join(