score: Score Vote Count

In vote: Election Vote Counting

Score Vote Count

Description

Count votes using the score (or range) method. Voters give each candidate a score, the scores are added and the candidate(s) with the highest (or lowest) totals is/are elected.

Usage

score(votes, nseats = 1, max.score = NULL, larger.wins = TRUE, 
  fsep = "\t", quiet = FALSE, ...)

## S3 method for class 'vote.score'
summary(object, ...)

## S3 method for class 'vote.score'
view(object, ...)

Arguments

votes	Matrix or data frame containing the votes which should be numbers between 0 and max.score. Rows correspond to the votes, columns correspond to the candidates. If it is a character string it is interpreted as a file name from which the votes are to be read. Missing values (NA) are interpreted as zeros.
nseats	Number of candidates to be elected.
max.score	Maximum score allowed. It is used to remove invalid votes. If not given, the maximum value contained in the data is taken and thus, all non-negative votes are valid.
larger.wins	Logical argument indicating whether the winners are the candidates with the highest scores (default) or the lowest scores.
fsep	If votes is a file name, this argument gives the column separator in the file.
quiet	If TRUE no output is printed.
...	Not used.
object	Object of class vote.score.

Value

Function score returns an object of class vote.score which is a list with the following objects:

elected	Vector of names of the elected candidates in the order in which they were elected.
totals	Vector of total votes in the same order as candidates (columns) in the input data.
larger.wins	Input argument of the same name.
data	Input data with invalid votes removed.
invalid.votes	Number of invalid votes that were removed from the original dataset.

Author(s)

Hana Sevcikova, Adrian Raftery

References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_voting

See Also

count.votes

Examples

# Example using the IMS Council dataset modified for score voting
data(ims_score)
score.ims <- score(ims_score, max.score = 9)
summary(score.ims)

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