Cornell University (my alma mater times two) recently used OpenSTV to count the votes for its election of the student member of its Board of Trustees. Cornell previously used an outside vendor to collect and count the votes. Now, Cornell uses its own system to collect the votes and uses OpenSTV to do the counting.

The Cornell Chronicle posted an article about the election and touting the benefits of OpenSTV:

Here is a sampling of organizations that have used OpenSTV to conduct an election as found in a Google search. Organizations of students and computer programmers (and in one case, both) make up nearly the entire list.

• Leeds Metropolitan Student Union
• Zope Foundation
• Maemo.org Community Council election
• Apache Foundation
• University College London Union
• OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards)
• VoterMedia.Org at University of British Columbia
• Associated Students of the University of California, Davis
• League of Professional System Administrators
• The Computer Science Departmental Society for York University (HackSoc)
• OpenSolaris Board
  

This website has been moved from SourceForge.net and is now hosted at its own address: www.OpenSTV.org. This will improve the performance of the site and provide us with more options for expanding content in the future.

Links to the old website should be automatically redirected to the new address, but please update your links/bookmarks to the new address because the automatic redirect is temporary.

Please let me know if you see anything with the new site that needs fixing.

This is a bugfix release to fix several bugs that appeared only in the Mac version of OpenSTV. This release is now available for download.

OpenSTV version 1.3 is now available. Select "Download OpenSTV" from the top of this page to get download links.

The most significant changes in this release are the following:

• Redesigned OpenSTV user interface: (1) User can only run an election from a saved ballot file (previously, you could use a ballot file in memory). (2) User can edit/create ballots in a separate Ballot File Editor window and save them to a file.
• Can save election results in HTML.
• More explanatory output for Condorcet elections.
• Added subclasses for different ballot types to make it easier to support new types.
• Changes under the hood that make OpenSTV easier to maintain.