User:Elzear
Hello,
I am Antoine Clausse. Online, I am Elzéar.
Identity[edit | edit source]
I am a programmer, currently living in Berlin
- Personal website: www.elzear.de
- GitHub: lzear
- Twitter _lzear
Voting systems and me[edit | edit source]
Past[edit | edit source]
In 2014, I randomly registered to the course "Computational Social Choice" at the Technical University of Munich. That course was fascinating, and made me want to develop a web app allowing to create polls using several voting systems. A lot of that course content (and more) is freely available in the links here: https://www.cs.cit.tum.de/en/dss/brandt/.
Like many people, I also stumbled upon great content like CGP Grey Voting Series, To Build a Better Ballot by Nicky Case and La démocratie sous l'angle de la théorie des jeux , which triggered my interest again.
Projects[edit | edit source]
Since 2015, I worked very slowly on voting systems as a side project. So far, I created the following content:
- www.elzear.de/polls - a platform to create and share polls with friends. It supports many systems, including Ranked pairs, Schulze, Kemeny-Young, Minimax, Approval voting, Borda count, IRV, Coombs, Two-round system, FPTP, Maximal lotteries, Randomized Condorcet.
- A blog post about ranked voting systems - an introduction to ranked voting systems. If you are on this Wiki, you probably don't need to read that.
- rank-votes.vercel.app - a playground to create polls locally and see the results with different voting systems.
- github.com/lzear/votes - a TypeScript library for voting systems. Also includes the source of the website above.
Future[edit | edit source]
After making my voting system projects minimally viable, it became more difficult to invest time in them. In retrospect, I should have contributed to other projects instead of soloing mine.
I mostly plan to make all my "voting content" on www.elzear.de/polls open source, by migrating modules to github.com/lzear/votes.
Contact[edit | edit source]
So far, I have not been very social about voting systems, which is absurd. I am always happy to chat about voting system, programming, or anything. Feel free to reach out on User talk:Elzear, GitHub issues, Twitter, or any means you may find 🙂