DigitalVotingSystem

Inspiration

What it does

A voting system that lets discord servers run Instant-runoff voting

How we built it

We used discord.py to create our bot We split the team in half, one working on the voting system algorithm and the other working on user interaction with the bot to increase productivity.

Challenges we ran into

We were unsure of what to do for the tiebreaker, so we went through the available wiki page, documentation available online and decided that we will use the random rule

For the anonymous voting, it took us a while to figure out how to send DM through the discord bot and take the user input from DM.

Currently, the $stop command that is supposed to stop all current voting processes isn't working as intended for certain cases. We are assuming that when bot is waiting for user input, it accepts $stop as user input instead of command. We are unsure how to stop it without either logging out of the bot and leaving the server. We tried to check for user input to not include command "$" but that didn't fix anything.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We felt such satisfaction and feeling of accomplishment when we merged the discord bot section's work and the IRV section's work and they worked as we imaged