Comment on Software used to count Australian Senate votes is a “trade secret”parentComments−pwc12yYou can download the 2013 Senate below-the-line preferences from here:http://results.aec.gov.au/17496/Website/SenateDownloadsMenu-...(Down the bottom, under “State Below the Line Preferences”)I think those files, plus the above-the-line preferences should be enough to re-do the AEC's calculation... I would be interested to know if anyone had ever tried that.−Maxious12yhttp://blog.angrygoats.net/2014/01/25/counting-the-west-aust... uses those files I think and is cited in the FOI review as an example of how someone could reproduce their "trade-secret" algorithm using publically available information.
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You can download the 2013 Senate below-the-line preferences from here:
http://results.aec.gov.au/17496/Website/SenateDownloadsMenu-...
(Down the bottom, under “State Below the Line Preferences”)
I think those files, plus the above-the-line preferences should be enough to re-do the AEC's calculation... I would be interested to know if anyone had ever tried that.
http://blog.angrygoats.net/2014/01/25/counting-the-west-aust... uses those files I think and is cited in the FOI review as an example of how someone could reproduce their "trade-secret" algorithm using publically available information.