Election Web Service

Election Web Service exposes implmentations of various election methods through a JSON interface by way of python-vote-core. The purpose of this is to eliminate the need to implement language-specific versions of these methods.

For example, one could calculate the results of a SchulzeSTV election in their Java app by $erializing the ballots in JSON, making a request to the webserver, and unserializing the results.

• Project page: http://github.com/bradbeattie/Election-Web-Service
• Issue tracker: http://github.com/bradbeattie/Election-Web-Service/issues
• Active server: http://vote.cognitivesandbox.com
• Example usage: http://modernballots.com

Installation

python webserver.py

Basic Usage

curl -d '{"voting_system": "stv", "ballots": [{"count": 4, "ballot": ["orange"]}, {"count": 2, "ballot": ["pear", "orange"]}, {"count": 8, "ballot": ["chocolate", "strawberry"]}, {"count": 4, "ballot": ["chocolate", "sweets"]}, {"count": 1, "ballot": ["strawberry"]}, {"count": 1, "ballot": ["sweets"]}], "winners": 3}' http://vote.cognitivesandbox.com;

curl -d '{"voting_system": "schulze_method", "notation": "ranking", "ballots": [{ "count":1, "ballot":{"A":9, "B":1, "C":1, "D":9, "E":9, "F":2 }}, { "count":1, "ballot":{"A":3, "B":2, "C":3, "D":1, "E":9, "F":9 }}, { "count":1, "ballot":{"A":9, "B":9, "C":9, "D":9, "E":1, "F":9 }}]}' http://vote.cognitivesandbox.com;

curl -d '{"voting_system": "schulze_stv", "notation": "ranking", "ballots": [{ "count":1, "ballot":{"A":9, "B":1, "C":1, "D":9, "E":9, "F":2 }}, { "count":1, "ballot":{"A":3, "B":2, "C":3, "D":1, "E":9, "F":9 }}, { "count":1, "ballot":{"A":9, "B":9, "C":9, "D":9, "E":1, "F":9 }}], "winners": 2}' http://vote.cognitivesandbox.com;

License

Copyright (C) 2009, Brad Beattie

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 http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.