OpenSTV Questions

Just today I experienced a Congressional District Convention at which 400
delegates utilized IRV for to elect eight officers:
3 Delegates to our National Convention
3 Alternate Delegates to our National Convention
1 Presidential Elector and
1 Alternate Presidential Elector
Our State party rules require a separate ballot/election for each of the

Hi,

there were some errors in my post below, so I reformulate it with the
errors corrected to make it more understandable.
Please disregard and discard my previous post under the same subject:

In elections of the Czech Green party, an empty ballot is a valid
vote.
When using static quotas in STV empty ballots are of importance, as

Hi

the Green Party of California STV is the only STV method in Open STV,
which does not elect any candidate, which doesn't reach the threshold.
All other methods always elect candidates in the final round, using
static thresholds even where the candidates don't meet the threshold.

Example - 1 seat election:

Hello OpaVote folks -
I'm having trouble with election #153008, a test election for a real one
I'd like to start today. Whether I type in voters to add or upload a text
file with one e-mail address per line, the election isn't processing them.
Strange behavior:
- if I "download list of voters" I can see all of the e-mail addresses

Hi Jeff

Ive managed to sort out the script for the voting

Can you advise how to change the colours of the voting box as i need to
change the background of the box to white with black writing as my website
page background is black please!

<script type="text/javascript"
src="[link]"></script>

Powers that be,
I have been waiting for years to utilize this method. I have been involved in a Burning Man group organizing a new non profit in our local area. I have sold our voting body on the use of STV and we are voting in initial directors beginning Monday the 5th. I need to use Opavote. Is there an estimated time of getting this back up and running?

Dear OpenSTV,
I run a voter education program in San Francisco where i run mock elections
using IRV. I purchased your system to run my ballot totals.
Is it possible to use an excising excel worksheet and use the software to
process the data?
Thanks!
-Peter

Hello,
I am interested in using OpaVote for an organization for a student group. I
am wondering if it is possible to keep the ballot data private so that only
the election manager can download the results.
Thank you!

I launched Opal about 8 months ago as a platform for online voting. Slowly
but surely, I've been adding features and working on making the whole
process reliable and robust.
I'm considering changing the name of Opal to something else that has a
better ring to it and because the URL opalvote.com is awkward to say. I'd

I've already reported the bug here<[link]> on
Launchpad, but here we go again:

Run the attached ballot file using Meek STV and a display width of 100
characters (the default for the GUI version of the program); nothing in
particular should happen. Now run it again with a display width of 80

Hi,
I've looked around but still cannot figure out how to use OpenSTV. I've
downloaded the sample vote file from the website but have been unable to
select anything from the File menu. It does not appear that there is a file
menu available to select.
I'm using Ubuntu, latest version, and this may be a factor.

Hi
I am from the UK, campaigning for use of STV in local elections.
Unlike in the US where it seems that some cities use IRV, which we
call Alternative Vote (AV), local authorities in Britain do not have
the power to choose a voting system - so this has to be a national
campaign.
I am looking at Opal/OpenSTV as a campaigning tool to familiarise

Dear Programmers
We want to use opal, but we need to keep track of the emails who have voted, any possibility?
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Hi,

I think I have found two bugs in OpenSTV.

BUG 1.
I found one smaller bug in the calculation of vote allocation for the
methods "Fractional transfer STV" and "Green party of California STV"
when using fractional thresholds.
I didn't find the bug for the other fractional STV methods, like

Hi Vello,
You cannot use Excel, but you can construct a ballot file with a text
editor. Just make sure to save as plain ascii text. It is best to use
something like Notepad and to avoid MS Word.
The Help menu in OpenSTV explains the two ballot file formats that OpenSTV
accepts.
Please post any additional questions to this list.

Hi Jeff,

I am not sure understand how one of the batch elimination features
works in OpenSTV - eliminating candidates "with no chance of winning"
in an STV election.

Specifically, on the page [link],
I don't understand what is meant by the following text: "To test if a

Anthony,
The only reason is that I haven't gotten around to it yet. FYI, OpenSTV is
what I work on on nights and weekends on top of my day job, so I have very
limited time and cannot do everything that I want to. I plan to implement
all STV rules used in Australia eventually.
Jeff
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 3:33 AM, democracy AT work <

Hi there,

I'll be implementing a voting system for various Venezuelan elections,
and am evaluating whether Opal/OpenSTV would suit our application.

I created a test election on Opal and executed it. Looks like it just
gives the voter the ability to order the candidates...and, then, the
top X candidates get the X open seats...where "X" is the number of

Is it possible to increase the voter limit so we can poll our membership
charity of 11,000 people?
regards
Mike

Is it possible to increase the voter limit to 11,000 so we can poll our
membership charity?