dividebatur: process single-transferable-vote elections as used for the Australian Senate under the Commonwealth Electoral Act (1918)
For a high level overview of what this does, check this blog post:
http://blog.angrygoats.net/2014/01/25/counting-the-west-australian-senate-election/
Copyright 2013 Grahame Bowland
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./run_aec_fed2013_wa.sh will run a count of the 2013/14 WA Senate count .
The data is in the repository under aec_data/fed2013_wa.
./run_aec_fed2016.sh will run a count for all states with data available,
for the 2016 federal election. The data is in the repository under aec_data/fed2016.
senatecount.py builds up the initial data needed to begin the count, and then hands it to counter.py
counter.py processes the vote. Note it may require user input to break ties which occur choosing a candidate to exclude, choosing the order of election, or choosing the final candidate elected.