Single Transferable Vote

Some ramblings on STV and project ideas.

Voting's on my mind again because of some recent topics in #code4lib and on the mailing list, so I looked into Borda Count, etc. This time I landed on STV. I like that IRV is merely STV with a single winner. So a system that supports STV should support IRV without any modification.

On the software side of things, OpenSTV looks pretty cool in that it's a desktop app written in Python. I'm thinking it would be great to have a portable Django STV app, for which I might steal some of the OpenSTV code (with attribution, of course).

Also, the home page of OpenSTV currently links to Issue 24 of Voting matters, in which the creator of OpenSTV has articles on STV in Northern Ireland and the Droop quota. I've printed it out for my bus ride to NYC.

keywords: tech, voting, politics, django, python created 2008-01-25 last modified 2008-08-01