Compiling I D Hill's New Zealand Meek STV implementation: OpenTally dev log

In [1], I D Hill describes an implementation of Meek STV written in Pascal, which had been privately circulated since as early as 1999 [2]. The implementation is similar to the earlier ‘Algorithm 123’ Pascal implementation of Meek STV by Hill, Wichmann and… »

Multiple constraints in STV elections: OpenTally dev log

OpenTally is open source software currently under development for the counting of elections using STV and related systems. Part of its feature set is the implementation of constraints on elections: for example, where a certain minimum or maximum number of candidates must be elected from… »

Porting Python to Rust/WebAssembly: OpenTally dev log

Background and motivation

pyRCV2 is software for open-source election counting. It is intended to be usable across multiple platforms – as a web application, for the convenience of users less technologically inclined, and as a standalone CLI desktop application, for better performance. To this end,… »

Points of Order: Meeting procedure in Australia and the UK – free/open source e-book

Points of Order

Meeting procedure in Australia and the UK

This book is about meeting procedure in Australia, with rough applicability to countries with similar procedures, such as the UK, from where Australian meeting procedure originates, and other Commonwealth countries.

This book takes a descriptive,… »

Drawcember 2020

Some random art of mine from Drawcember 2020. Mouseover for image description.