Election API prototype

The project sputtered a few times before it really got going, but it seems well on its way. My first elections calculator was built to demonstrate the flaws of voting systems. This new one, however, is intended for the development community.

Most voting systems are plain Plurality (aka first past the post) and is prone to a great many flaws. Instead of implementing better voting systems libraries in each language, why not provide a general web service API?

The tool speaks JSON and provides and is completely stateless. You send your full request (ballots, desired voting system, etc) and it returns the winner (or winners) and an explanation as to how it reached that conclusion. All data is stored locally in cookies; The only server communication is for the result calculation.

I’m only about half-way done: four more algorithms to go (Schulze, STV, CPO-STV and Schulze STV) and a fair bit of polishing on the UI. Late December? Early January? Something like that.