droophp/droophp

STV vote counting

DrooPHP

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Summary

• Author: Patrick Dawkins pjcdawkins@gmail.com
• License: GPL
• Requires: PHP >= 5.4

DrooPHP will be a PHP library to enable counting results for an STV election., _(*2)

It's inspired by the Python project "Droop". See: http://code.google.com/p/droop/, _(*3)

References

• How to Conduct an Election by the Single Transferable Vote, R. A. Newland, F. S. Britton (Electoral Reform Society of Great Britain and Ireland, London, 1997): http://www.cix.co.uk/~rosenstiel/stvrules/
• BLT File format (Droop): http://code.google.com/p/droop/wiki/BltFileFormat
• Reference STV rules (Proportional Representation Foundation): http://prfound.org/resources/reference/
• Single transferable vote (Wikipedia): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote
• Counting Single Transferable Votes (Wikipedia): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting_Single_Transferable_Votes