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A simple unser interface to run STV elections.
Suitable for use as a polling booth for small elections.
Requires Java 1.2 or later
Self documenting - just double-click the jarfile and use.
This is the same internal engine as votesystem 0.4

It is strongly recommended that you update to this version, as there have been bugfixes.

Release notes:
* validation
* strictness options
* fixed major bug with partial voting
* other sundry bug fixes (see bugtracker on sourceforge.net)
* some documentation fixes
* slightly improved the packaging

* speed improvements actually in this version
* validation of voters to check for repeat votes
* allows file outputs
* command line switches documented

(release early, release often)
* some speed improvements
* changed the rank order input to use labels
* improved the error checking
* slight improvement in debugging display
* added a web page on input formats.

Voting Systems Toolbox 0.1 is available for download.
It supports STV (Meek algorithm) and STV-SE.
There is work to do on the input/output, the documentation is mostly nonexistent, but the voting code itself is pretty robust.