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Hi all,

I'm Arend Peter and I'm one of the software volunteers with STAR Voting

I'm going to try posting occasional updates here to keep everyone in the loop on the projects we're working on. We also have an overview here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LgbM4XqKsBOT5zWq-5S7UiqUjDRoK7Q6jAqhskDi6zI/edit

Star.vote 2.0

We're working on revamping the star.vote website using react. The will have a bunch of new features like supporting many voting methods (IRV, Approval, STAR-PR, Ranked Robin, etc), supporting multi-race elections and making it easier to be used for large scale elections. Most of it is already functional and you can see the work in progress here https://star-vote.herokuapp.com

https://github.com/Equal-Vote/star-server/

Discord bot

We're making a bot to help run elections on discord in python

Side note: this uses the same backend as star.vote 2.0, if anyone is working on other apps for running elections (ex. slack, or this forum), let us know and we can probably setup our backend to support it

https://github.com/Equal-Vote/discord-bot

Starpy

This is a collection of python scripts for running star voting elections

https://github.com/Equal-Vote/starpy

@sass said in My proposal for this forum:

I'll note that the Equal Vote Software Development committee has been working on some of the features you've described in a modular way that should be easy to fold into the forum soon, including a tool that allows people to vote with many different voting methods. This work is already being done by a coalition of volunteers and I'm sure they would like your help. The best way to do so is to sign up to volunteer at equal.vote/join.

Hi, I'm one of the members of the equal vote software committee and I'm new to the forum. I'd be happy to start sharing regular updates here to keep people in the loop on our software projects. It could be a good way to find opportunities for collaborating and using each other's tools

Yep, we're working on a new version of star.vote (currently live at dev.star.vote).

For comparing voting methods, one option is to setup a multi-race election where each race votes for the same set of logos but uses a different voting method.

Here's the ones we support (some of them aren't enabled at the moment, but we could enable them if needed)

• STAR
• Ranked Robin
• IRV
• Approval
• Choose One
• Score

Adam helped me get in contact Jeanne who sent over the whole ballot data. I have it here in case anyone is interested
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18rBTSqzOAoGK4ZTsaFy5LfU-IiMbYBpkgkUE6vqz8mA/edit?usp=sharing
Jeanne said to credit David McCune with the original work of processing the raw cvr ballots

Hi, I'm curious to learn more, and I should also be available in late April