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  Setting up an election

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  Sample Election with Candidates from Foursquare

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  Voting in an election

VoteIt

VoteIt is an open-source voting application. It provides hook-ins for allowing users to vote on selected elections (where an election could be pertaining to anything from a simple vote to a full-scale leadership election).

Why make this?

Voting systems are still a rarity in the open source world. There are multiple libraries that provide various voting records, but many of them are unmaintained. VoteIt is an attempt to implement the Schulze Method, a Condorcet Method, into the Go language, as well as a simple majority (initially) and apply it to different scenarios that people can vote on.

This initial version of VoteIt takes its candidates from a query on Foursquare - the top 5 results are up for election! Who will people pick?

Running

Requires Go 1.6+ and its various dependencies.

Install dependencies with go get -u -v github.com/robxu9/voteit, and build with go build. Alternatively, run directly with go run voteit.go.

You need a Foursquare API ID & Secret for FourSquare access. Set it in the environment as FOURSQUARE_ID and FOURSQUARE_SECRET.

License

MIT licensed

Built With

• api
• condorcet
• foursquare
• go
• json
• voting