schulze-voting

Purpose

This is a simple Java implementation of the Schulze voting system with a command-line interface.

If you are searching for a voting software with much more functionality and a graphical user interface, you should give OpenSTV (Single Transferable Vote and Instant Runoff Voting Software) a try.

Background

You can get more Background information at various sources:

• Schulze voting method at Wikipedia,
• A Survey of Basic Voting Methods by James Green-Armytage,
• Condorcet method and more specific Schulze method at Electowiki,
• Benutzerleitfaden für Wahlen und Abstimmungen nach dem Verfahren des Paarweisen Vergleichs by Demokratie von unten (in german).

Requirements

It has no further dependencies except for Java 6 or later.

How to compile and execute

If you have Apache Ant installed, just type

to compile the source and

to execute the program.

Licence

Copyright 2010 by Dennis Heidsiek

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see here.