Storable Votes

This software is designed to test theories about strategic voting over a sequence of proposals. Subjects are assigned to groups on size N. They will vote over a sequence of M proposals. They are given B bonus votes to begin with. Each time a proposal comes up, they are each independetly and privately assigned a value from -V to V, uniformly, in integer increments. If their value is negative, they are opposed to the current proposal and receive the absolute value of their value if the proposal FAILS. If their value is positive, they are for the current proposal and receive their value if the proposal passes. Otherwise they get 0. They then choose how many votes to cast for or against the proposal, a number that must be between 1 and the number of bonus votes they have not yet used.

View storablevotes-sample.txt.

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