[EM] Software for STV elections - STVBallot

[Peter Zbornik]

Hi Juho,

we can make our program available in other languages, if there will be
any larger organisation interested in using it.
If anyone of you would know any organisation, that would consider
using the program, possibly after minor modifications, please let me
know.

STVBallot is the first freeware/shareware software to implement the
features I mentioned in my first email, that is:
- vote entry through several computers over a network without internet
or client-server architecture
- platform using Chrome Apps which is independent of operating system
- ranked STV (for instance, electing the "chairman", "vice chairman"
and "regular members of the board" in one election)
- gender quotas without "guarding" (could be extended to quotas in general)
- open source
- allowing for counting incomplete votes
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/None_of_the_above)
- allowing for immediate adopotion of any organisation, since the
algorithms are specified in our party rule book

Best regards
Peter Zborník

On 01/07/2014, Juho Laatu <juho4880 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Nice work! This is the way to make the world a better place (with respecct
> to election methods). The UI was not the easiest possible to me, but Google
> translate helped a bit :-). Maybe you can one day make it available also in
> some other languages.
>
> Juho
>
>
> On 01 Jul 2014, at 20:36, Peter Zbornik <pzbornik at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> in the Czech Greens we developed this open source vote-entry and
>> counting program as an App in Chrome called STVBallot.
>> It allows for vote counting in a network without any dependance on the
>> internet and without client-server architecture.
>> Unfortunately the program is in Czech.
>> The vote-counting algorithm is standard STV, with the possibility to
>> combine ranked election of some candidates and the incorporation of
>> gender quotas, without resorting to "guarding" some candidates
>> (candidates are quoted after those with higher support are elected).
>>
>> Download STVBallot into Chrome here:
>> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stv-ballot/nckikmpbpcjagehockhckflmmflkifbo
>>
>> STVBallot was programmed by Vaclav Novak (in copy).
>> I took part in the analysis, testing and the integration of the
>> program in our party.
>>
>> Best regards
>> Peter Zbornik
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