Publicly Verifiable Nominations Committee (NomCom) Random Selection

This tool will randomize a list, such that it can be verified afterwards.

Seed

Obtain 12 digits as follows: by taking the 6 numbers of the US Powerball “Draw” in display order, with single digits prefixed by a 0. The US Powerball “Draw” result used is the one closest (in advance) to the date and time of the end of the originally announced end of the nomination period.

Length

Identicate the length (number of items, 0-99) of your alphabetical ordered list:

Results

Use the compute button to see the results

Notes

Example for a seed

Assuming the end date of the nominations was 8/27/2023, you'll obtain the seed "202226286305" (draw result of 8/26/2023).

This matches the XML export format from data.ny.gov.

URL parameters

The seed and length URL parameters are supported, to prepopulate the input forms. See example.

Computation

The actual seed used is the concatenation of the input seed (as a string), '-', and the length (as a number, so no leading 0). The computation is then done using seedrandom 3.0.5