Description: Free open-source software for voting and election games and simulations, or lectures and research.
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Political Sim allows voting by all the widely used rules such as Australia's STV, Japan's SNTV, Finland's list PR, USA's open primary, England's plurality and France's runoff; plus limited, cumulative, and the often illegal bloc voting rules. Simulated voters rank the candidates, giving 1st choice to the closest, 2nd choice to the 2nd closest, and so on. Their positions on the screen may represent geography or political opinions. Games: Players take the roles of party leaders positioning rival candidates t
Elections for research or fun may have 2 to 16 candidates, competing for 1 to 7 seats.
1) Simulations show that Ensemble Rules are the best way to represent the center and all sides. Here LER elects Al then Bev, Di, Fred , and Joe . (Each winner's name is in bold .)