VOTE

Translation of Professor Slade's VOTE system from Lisp to Python

Requirements

• Python 2.7
• pymongo >= 3.2
• MongoDB 3.0.7 (for Mac, just run 'brew install mongodb' in Terminal)

Running the code

1. Open the Python 2 interpreter from the top level directory
2. Run "from src.scripts.database import load_data"
3. Run "load_data.load_data()"
4. Run "from src.vote import vote"
5. Run "vote.vote_all()" to see the outcome of all of the members voting on all bills
6. Run "vote.vote('JORDAN', 'HR-4264')" to see what a specific member would vote on a specific bill.

List of sample members:

• John Smith ("SMITH")
• Jane Jordan ("JORDAN")
• John Doe ("DOE")

List of sample bills:

• AMD
• HR-4800
• HR-4264
• HR-777

Screenshots (examples)