Software

There's a lot of software and websites that folks have made for implementing different polling solutions. Ping User:RobLa over on the C4ES Discord server if he doesn't flesh this page out before the end of July 2020.

Main category: Category:Software

By person

(alphabetical by last name)

Nicky Case

main article: Nicky Case

Things like Nicky Case's famous "how to build a better ballot": https://ncase.me/ballot/.

Ka-Ping Yee

main article: Ka-Ping Yee

Ka-Ping Yee's diagrams (Yee diagrams) changed many perspectives in the world of electoral reform.

Others

• User:RobLa - much random software, like Electowidget and lots of hacks to MediaWiki.
• https://www.howtofixtheelection.com/
• See also: Category:Voting software

By software

Other links for software for calculation, analysis, simulation, etc. of voting methods and elections

Local execution & Library

• Condorcet PHP: Command-line application and PHP library natively including dozens of methods under a single interface. And a modular framework for implementing more.
• JavaScript library votes: Includes more than 16 voting systems. NPM, GitHub, demo.

Online election calculators

see also: online poll

These sites calculate the winner from a listing of ballots:

• Pivot
• Condorcet.Vote
• Pairwise Methods Demonstration
  • which inspired Ranked-ballot voting calculator
    • which inspired Eric Gorr’s Condorcet Matrix
• https://rangevoting.org/VoteCalc.html
• DistributedVote

Simulation

• Quadelect: Draw Yee maps, calculate Bayesian regret, and determine election winners
• IEVS: Infinitely extendible voting system comparison engine (C, non-commercial use only)
• Voteline1D simulator for FPTP, Approval, Borda, Condorcet, and IRV (Flash, online)
• To Build a Better Ballot: Nicky Case's 2D explorable explanation of six voting methods.
• Smart Voting Simulator: 2D interactive guide to voting methods.
• Votekit: A rough draft of a 2D and 1D interactive simulator.
• Arrow’s Theorem: Visualizing 3-Candidate, 3-Voter Elections with Hexagons. Video. Github.

Unsorted

• https://github.com/simberaj/votelib Open source Python library for calculating results of many election systems ranging from mixed-member proportional to Bucklin voting and many Condorcet methods
• https://github.com/brianolson/redistricter open-source impartial algorithmic redistricting
• https://metacpan.org/pod/Vote::Count Vote::Count a Perl Library supporting a large number of RCV and Range methods (IRV, Borda, Condorcet, MinMax).
• https://github.com/brianolson/voteutil Count votes with a variety of algorithms in a variety of languages (C, Python, Go, Java) Also a Histogram class with the same interface.
• https://github.com/brianolson/election_simulator Simulate elections to test election algorithms
• https://github.com/electionscience/vse-sim Methods for running simulations to calculate Voter Satisfaction Efficiency (VSE) of various voting systems in various conditions.
• https://github.com/crflynn/voting Different apportionment methods implemented in Python
• https://github.com/vvk-ehk/ivxv Source of Estonia's online voting system.
• http://bolson.org/voting/sim_one_seat/dist/
• https://github.com/msmunter/star.vote Star.vote Website https://star.vote

Open Standards

• Condorcet Election Format: The `Condorcet Election Format` is a free and standardized open election description standard. The objective of this format is to be easily written and read by a human, with the rigor and precision necessary for ingestion by a program.
• Election Markup Language