Package: SafeVote 1.0.0

Clark Thomborson

SafeVote: Election Vote Counting with Safety Features

Fork of 'vote_2.3-2', Raftery et al. (2021) <doi:10.32614/RJ-2021-086>, with additional support for stochastic experimentation.

Authors:Clark Thomborson [cre, aut]

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# Install 'SafeVote' in R:

install.packages('SafeVote', repos = c('https://cthombor.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/cthombor/safevote/issues

Datasets:

a3_hil - Tideman a3_hil
a4_hil - Tideman a4_hil
a53_hil - Tideman a53_hil
dublin_west - Dublin West
food_election - Food Election
ims_approval - IMS Approval
ims_election - IMS Election
ims_plurality - IMS Plurality
ims_score - IMS Score
ims_stv - IMS STV
uk_labour_2010 - UK Labour Party Leader 2010
yale_ballots - Yale Faculty Senate 2016

On CRAN:

15 exports 0.64 score 63 dependencies 2 scripts 311 downloads

Last updated 2 years agofrom:fab14efa56. Checks:OK: 7. Indexed: yes.

Target	Result	Date
Doc / Vignettes	OK	Sep 11 2024
R-4.5-win	OK	Sep 11 2024
R-4.5-linux	OK	Sep 11 2024
R-4.4-win	OK	Sep 11 2024
R-4.4-mac	OK	Sep 11 2024
R-4.3-win	OK	Sep 11 2024
R-4.3-mac	OK	Sep 11 2024

Exports:approval check.ranking combineRankings condorcet invalid.votes is.SafeRankExpt new_SafeRankExpt plurality readHil score stv testAdditions testDeletions testFraction view

Dependencies:base64enc bslib cachem cli colorspace data.table digest dotCall64 dplyr evaluate fansi farver fastmap fields fontawesome forcats formattable fs generics ggplot2 glue gtable highr htmltools htmlwidgets isoband jquerylib jsonlite knitr labeling lattice lifecycle magrittr maps MASS Matrix memoise mgcv mime munsell nlme pillar pkgconfig R6 rappdirs RColorBrewer Rcpp rlang rmarkdown sass scales spam stringi stringr tibble tidyselect tinytex utf8 vctrs viridisLite withr xfun yaml

Citation

Development and contributors

Readme and manuals

Help Manual

Help page	Topics
.print method for summary object	.print.summary.SafeVote
summarises vote-totals for subsequent printing	.summary.SafeVote
Tideman a3_hil	a3_hil
Tideman a4_hil	a4_hil
Tideman a53_hil	a53_hil
Count votes using the approval method	approval
as.SafeRankExpt()	as.SafeRankExpt
undocumented internal method	assemble.args.for.check.score
undocumented internal method	assemble.args.for.check.stv
Undocumented internal method	backwards.tiebreak
parameter-checking method for nseats (internal)	check.nseats
check the validity of a partial ranking	check.ranking
undocumented internal method	check.votes
undocumented internal method	check.votes.approval
undocumented internal method	check.votes.condorcet
undocumented internal method	check.votes.plurality
undocumented internal method	check.votes.score
undocumented internal method	check.votes.stv
undocumented internal method	check.votes.tworound.runoff
the least upper bound on a pair of rankings	combineRankings
internal method to analyse the partial results of an stv() ballot count, to discover a complete ranking of all candidates. The ranking may depend on the value of nseats, because this affects how votes are transferred.	completeRankingTable
Count votes using the Condorcet voting method.	condorcet
Amend ballots with equal or incomplete preferences	correct.ranking
Dublin West	dublin_west
prints the basic results of an election	election.info
extract margins from the results of a ballot count	extractMargins
Extract a ranking vector by name from the results of a ballot count	extractRank
Food Election	food_election
Undocumented internal method	forwards.tiebreak
The image function visualizes the joint distribution of two preferences (if 'all.pref=FALSE') given 'xpref' and 'ypref', as well as the marginal distribution of all preferences (if 'all.pref=TRUE'). The joint distribution can be shown as proportions (if 'proportion=TRUE') or raw vote counts (if 'proportion=FALSE').	image.SafeVote.condorcet
visualisation of joint and marginal distributions in STV preferences	image.SafeVote.stv
IMS Approval	ims_approval
IMS Election	ims_election
IMS Plurality	ims_plurality
IMS Score	ims_score
IMS STV	ims_stv
Extracts the invalid.votes member (if any) from the result of a count	invalid.votes
is.SafeRankExpt()	is.SafeRankExpt
undocumented internal method	is.valid.vote
Find a loser and their margin of victory	loserMargin
Constructor for the results of a SafeRank experiment	new_SafeRankExpt
Undocumented internal method	ordered.preferences
Undocumented internal method	ordered.tiebreak
plot() method for the result of an experiment with varying numbers of ballots	plot.SafeRankExpt
plot() method for the result of an stv() ballot-count	plot.SafeVote.stv
Count votes using the plurality method	plurality
Coerce input 'data' into a matrix	prepare.votes
Print method for summary.SafeRankExpt	print.summary.SafeRankExpt
print method for summary object	print.summary.SafeVote.approval
print method for summary.SafeVote.condorcet	print.summary.SafeVote.condorcet
print method for summary of plurality object	print.summary.SafeVote.plurality
print method for summary.score object	print.summary.SafeVote.score
print() method for a summary() of a SafeVote result	print.summary.SafeVote.stv
add a row to a SafeRankExpt object	rbind.SafeRankExpt
read a set of ballots in .HIL format	readHil
Remove a candidate, amending ballot papers as required	remove.candidate
Count votes using the score (or range) method.	score
Undocumented internal method, renamed from 'solve.tiebreak' to avoid confusion with generic solve()	solveTiebreak
Count preferential ballots using an STV method	stv
summary method for SafeRankExpt	summary.SafeRankExpt
summary method for approval results	summary.SafeVote.approval
Summary method for condorcet() results	summary.SafeVote.condorcet
summary method for plurality object	summary.SafeVote.plurality
summary method for score object	summary.SafeVote.score
summary() method for a SafeVote result	summary.SafeVote.stv
internal method, computes column-sums	sumOfVotes
Test the sensitivity of a result to tactical voting.	testAdditions
Assess the safety of a preliminary result for an election	testDeletions
Bootstrapping experiment, with fractional counts of a ballot box.	testFraction
Undocumented internal method from original code	translate.ties
UK Labour Party Leader 2010	uk_labour_2010
generic view() for classes defined in this package	view
view method for approval object	view.SafeVote.approval
view method for SafeVote.condorcet	view.SafeVote.condorcet
view method for plurality object	view.SafeVote.plurality
view method for score object	view.SafeVote.score
view method for the result of an stv() ballot-count	view.SafeVote.stv
Find a winner and their margin of victory	winnerMargin
Yale Faculty Senate 2016	yale_ballots