Hoof 'N' Horn's ranked-choice voting tallying algorithm! This uses instant runoff voting to run and give results for Hoof 'N' Horn's general body meetings and annual elections.
Create a Qualtrics survey and add one question with the Rank Order option. When the results are in, download the CSV, and use the filepath as an input for the main function in instant_runoff.ipynb
First, create an absentee ballot Qualtrics form. This should be one form with every vote listed as a Rank Order question. In the sample vote, two questions were present; the first presented three options for favorite show, and the second presented four options for spiciest HnH alum.
In the run_hnh_election.ipynb notebook, change the global variable fold to the meeting's title (ex: 2023_ELECTION). Then, within the load_absentee function, change the elections variable to reflect the ballot by having each element be a 2-tuple with the name of the particular vote and how many options there are. For example, if voting for three 3-show ballots and a 4-way president race, elections should be [("fall", 3), ("winter", 3), ("spring", 3), ("president", 4)]. Download the CSV results from the absentee ballot and put its filepath into load_absentee`, which will create an election folder.
Next, create an individual Qualtrics survey for every race (as in, there should be one survey for the fall show selection, another for the winter show selection, etc). Distribute these at the GBM. When the time comes, download the CSV file and move it into the subfolder for that race (in the example, the spiciest alum results were moved into the 'sample_election/spicy' folder), then run the main function in run_hnh_election with the election name you created back in load_absentee, like `main("spicy") in this example. The results will be output.s