[EM] pSTV 0.9 and STV database 1.2

[Jeff O'Neill]

Two announcements:
   (1) pSTV version 0.9 is now available.
   (2) A much improved version of the STV Database is now online.

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(1) pSTV 0.9

New methods include N. Ireland STV and the Supplemental Vote.
Condorcet, Meek, and Warren methods are much faster than before.

Methods available:
   - SNTV
   - IRV
   - Supplemental Vote
   - British Columbia STV
   - ERS97 STV
   - Cambridge, MA STV
   - N. Ireland STV
   - Meek STV
   - Warren STV
   - customizable random transfer STV
   - customizable fractional transfer STV
   - Condorcet (completion with SSD, IRV, and Borda)
   - Bucklin
   - Borda
   - Coombs

More details and download links are at http://stv.sourceforge.net.

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(2) STV Database 1.2

The STV Database includes two tables.  The first table contains
statistics of ballot data for 931 elections.  The ballot data includes
government elections (e.g., Cambridge, MA, and Ireland), university
elections, and artificial elections.  The second table conatains
election results for the ballot data with 17 election methods (Borda,
Bucklin, CambridgeSTV, CofE, Condorcet, Coombs, ERS76, ERS97STV, IRV,
MeekSTV, NIrelandSTV, QPQe, QPQr, SNTV, SuppVote, WarrenSTV, XXvote).

Users can browse the database online with SQL queries or may download
the tables for use on their own computers.

For more inforamtion, go to http://stv.sourceforge.net.  New users
should read the users guide at http://stv.sourceforge.net/guide.html.