Reverse engineered ballot papers for the ERS97 model election

ERS97 refers to the rules for a Single Transferable Vote election set out in the 3rd edition of the Electoral Reform Society's How to conduct an election by the Single Transferable Vote, commonly used in the United Kingdom.

The ERS97 booklet contains a model… »

pyRCV2: Open-source online counting for STV and other preferential voting systems

pyRCV2 is an application for counting various preferential voting elections.

pyRCV2 may be used in a number of different ways:

• as an online web application, no installation or special software required, at https://yingtongli.me/rcv/
• as a standalone Python command line application
• as a library within another

Single Transferable Vote counting sheet (Creative Commons)

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AEC forms from the 2019 Australian federal election

This is a collection of paper forms used by the AEC at the 2019 Australian federal election, recreated by me from images shown in AEC training videos or AEC approved forms.

VEC forms from the 2018 Victorian state election

This is a collection of paper forms used by the VEC at the 2018 Victorian state election, recreated by me from images shown in the Election Official Manual and Voting Centre Manager Guide.

Why are the D'Hondt (quotient) and Jefferson (quota) methods equivalent?

The D'Hondt method/Jefferson method is a highest averages voting system (or apportionment method). While D'Hondt is usually described using successive division to calculate various quotients, Jefferson is usually described using a quota. It is known that the two systems produce the same results, but why?… »

US Election 2016: What if the Electoral College was proportional?

The title says it all really. What would have happened in the 2016 American federal election if votes in the Electoral College were allocated proportionally, either within each state or nationwide? I was curious, so here's some number-crunching.