org.bolson.vote
Class RankedVotingSystem

java.lang.Object
  org.bolson.vote.VotingSystem
      org.bolson.vote.RankedVotingSystem

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable

Direct Known Subclasses:

BordaVotingSystem, Bucklin, Coombs, IRV, STV

public abstract class RankedVotingSystem
extends VotingSystem

Interface for any voting system that inputs a voter's rankings of the choices. Supplies implementations of voteRating which call voteRanking

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.bolson.vote.VotingSystem

debug, NO_VOTE, numc

Constructor Summary

RankedVotingSystem(int numCandidates)

Method Summary

int	voteRating(double[] rating)
int	voteRating(float[] rating)
int	voteRating(int[] rating) Converts rating to ranking and passes to voteRanking.

Methods inherited from class org.bolson.vote.VotingSystem

checkRatedVote, getDebugHTML, getDebugText, getNumberOfCandidates, getWinners, getWinners, getWinners, getWinners, htmlSummary, init, isValidRankedVote, isValidRatedVote, name, normalize, normalize, normalize, normalize, normalize, normalizeL2, normalizeL2, normalizeL2, normalizeL2, normalizeL2, stretch, toString, voteRanking, voteRating

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

RankedVotingSystem

public RankedVotingSystem(int numCandidates)

Method Detail

voteRating

public int voteRating(int[] rating)

Converts rating to ranking and passes to voteRanking.

Specified by:

voteRating in class VotingSystem

Parameters:

rating - An array int[numc]. rating[i] is the rating of choice i. greater values are better.

Returns:

0 on success

voteRating

public int voteRating(float[] rating)

Specified by:

voteRating in class VotingSystem

Parameters:

rating - An array int[N]. rating[i] is the rating of choice i. A rating can be any int value. Higher means more preferred. NO_VOTE for unrated.

Returns:

0 on success

voteRating

public int voteRating(double[] rating)

Specified by:

voteRating in class VotingSystem

Parameters:

rating - An array int[N]. rating[i] is the rating of choice i. A rating can be any int value. Higher means more preferred. NO_VOTE for unrated.

Returns:

0 on success