tools for running a single transferable vote election
designed for specific needs of the UT Austin Government Dept.

Here is a sample code snippet for running an election.
[Note that we are using the Django Framework database 
connector (ORM) to pull data from the database]. The
resulting "logs" array contains details of the process.

CONFIG = {}
CONFIG['seats'] = 12 
CONFIG['minimum_full_professors'] = 4
CONFIG['initial_ballot_value'] = 100.0 

ballots = [] 
for db_ballot in Ballot.objects.all():
	b = {}
	b['data'] = json.loads(db_ballot.data)
    b['value'] = CONFIG['initial_ballot_value']
    ballots.append(b)
ballots = stvtools.even_ballot_length(ballots)

candidates = {} 
for db_cand in Candidate.objects.all():
	c = stvtools.StvCandidate( db_cand.eid, db_cand.name, db_cand.is_full_professor,[],0)
	candidates[db_cand.eid] = c

droop = stvtools.calculate_droop(len(ballots),CONFIG['seats'],CONFIG['initial_ballot_value'])

logs = [] 
committee = []

(ballots,candidates,committee,logs) = stvtools.run_step(ballots,candidates,committee,CONFIG,droop,logs)


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