#!/usr/bin/perl -w # # parses some input about ballots and computes the result according # to Debian Constitution A.6. # # usage: .../compute [...] # (uses stdin if none supplied) # # input files can be in any order and should contain lines like: # # :: , (=), , .... # V: # = # = [:] # = [default] # nodefault # quorum = # # where # # is any non-whitespace characters # # and are abbreviations for choices on the ballot. # They must be ASCII alphanumeric. Numeric preferences are # not recommended as they are confusing (particularly when # tally sheets are in use). # # It is best to avoid FD, SQ and NOTA except for the default # option; if no default option is specified, it will default # to one of these unless a "nodefault" line is found. # # In the "::" form, the commas are optional. Either ( ) or = may # be used to indicate a set of equal preferences. # # is a tally sheet preference order: that is, # a single uppercase base36 digit for each ballot choice, # (in the order they were specified by "=" lines), giving # the voter's preference rank for that option. The numbers # need not be distinct or contiguous. "-" may be used for # unranked preferences. # # : is the majority ratio for the option # # is the quorum # # and also allowed are # # #-comments } all # blank lines } ignored # lines starting with whitespace } use strict; use utf8; use autodie; use Graph::Directed; use Graph::Writer::GraphViz; binmode STDIN, 'encoding(UTF-8)'; binmode STDOUT, 'encoding(UTF-8)'; binmode STDERR, 'encoding(UTF-8)'; our @choices; our %choices; our @invotes_v; our @invotes_cc; our $defcho; our $quorum = 0; our $gfile; while (@ARGV && $ARGV[0] =~ /^-/) { local $_ = shift @ARGV; if (m/^--?$/) { last; } elsif (s/^-g//) { $gfile = $_; } else { die "bad usage\n"; } } sub addchoice { my $choname = shift @_; my $cho = $choices{$choname} = { @_, Index => (scalar @choices) }; push @choices, $choname; return $cho; } while (<>) { s/\s+$//; next if m/^\s*\#/; next unless m/\S/; next if m/^\s/; if (m/^([A-Z0-9]+)\s*\=\s*(\S.*)$/) { my ($choname, $desc) = ($1,$2); my $cho = addchoice($choname, Desc => $desc); if ($desc =~ m/\[(\d+):(\d+)\]/) { $cho->{Smaj} = [$1,$2]; } elsif ($desc =~ m/\[default\]/) { $defcho = $cho; } } elsif (m/^V:\s+(\S+)\s+(\S.*)/) { push @invotes_v, [ $1, $2 ]; } elsif (m/^(\S+)\s*\:\:\s*/) { push @invotes_cc, [ $1, "$'" ]; } elsif (m/^quorum = ([0-9.]+)$/) { $quorum = $1+0.0; } elsif (m/^nodefault$/) { $defcho = { Index => -1 } } else { die "invalid input"; } } our @vab; # $vab[$ia][$ib] = V(A,B) # Actually, it's a list of voters who prefer A to B (A.6(3)(1)) # Go through the voters and construct V(A,B) print "\nParsing \`simple' style ballots\n# devotee-tally-begin\n" if @invotes_cc; # actually, we pre-parse them into @invotes_v # since we want to show them as a tally sheet anyway foreach my $iv (@invotes_cc) { $_ = uc $iv->[1]; foreach my $chn (m/\b\w+\b/g) { next if $choices{$chn}; addchoice($chn, Desc => "($chn from voter ballot)"); } } foreach my $iv (@invotes_cc) { my ($voter) = $iv->[0]; $_ = uc $iv->[1]; s/\t/ /g; s/\,/ /g; while (s{\(([^()]+)\)}{ my $x = $1; $x =~ s/[ =]+/=/g; $x; }ge) { } s/[ =]*=[ =*]/=/g; s/\s+/ /g; print "# normalised $_ ($voter)\n"; my @ranks = (1000,) x @choices; my $rank = 1; foreach (split /\s+/) { foreach (split /=/) { my $cho = $choices{$_}; $cho or die "unknown choice $_ ($voter)"; my $ix = $cho->{Index}; $ranks[$ix] = $rank; } $rank++; } my $vstr = join '', map { $_ == 1000 ? "-" : $_ < 10 ? (sprintf "%d", $_) : $_ < 36 ? (chr(ord('A') + $_ - 10)) : die } @ranks; print "V: $vstr $voter\n"; push @invotes_v, [ $vstr, $voter ]; } print "# devotee-tally-end\n" if @invotes_cc; print "\nDetermining default option\n"; if ($defcho && $defcho->{Index} > -1) { print "default option was specified: $choices[$defcho->{Index}]\n"; } elsif ($defcho) { print "no default option\n"; } else { foreach my $try (qw(FD SQ NOTA)) { $defcho = $choices{$try}; last if $defcho; } if ($defcho) { print "guessed default option: $choices[$defcho->{Index}]\n"; } else { print "could not guess default option, assuming there is none\n"; } } my $defi = $defcho->{Index}; die "FD has smaj?!" if $defcho->{Smaj}; print "\nParsing devotee tally sheet ballots\n" if @invotes_v > @invotes_cc; foreach my $iv (@invotes_v) { my ($votestr,$voter) = @$iv; eval { length $votestr eq @choices or die "wrong vote vector length"; my @vs = split //, $votestr; foreach my $ix (0..$#vs) { my $vchr = $vs[$ix]; if ($vchr eq '-') { $vs[$ix] = 1000; } elsif ($vchr =~ m/[0-9a-z]/) { $vs[$ix] = ord($vchr); } else { die "bad vote char"; } } foreach my $ia (0..$#vs) { foreach my $ib ($ia+1..$#vs) { my $va = $vs[$ia]; my $vb = $vs[$ib]; if ($va < $vb) { push @{ $vab[$ia][$ib] }, $voter } elsif ($vb < $va) { push @{ $vab[$ib][$ia] }, $voter } } } }; die "voter $voter $@" if $@; } print "\nPreference matrix\n"; our @ch = map { $choices{$_} } @choices; # Print the counts V(A,B) foreach my $iy (-2..$#ch) { foreach my $ix (-2..$#ch) { if ($iy==-1) { if ($ix==-1) { printf "+"; } else { printf "------"; } } elsif ($ix==-1) { printf "|"; } elsif ($ix==-2 && $iy==-2) { printf "V(Y,X)"; } elsif ($iy==-2) { printf "%5s ", $choices[$ix]; } elsif ($ix==-2) { printf "%5s ", $choices[$iy]; } else { my $v = \( $vab[$iy][$ix] ); $$v ||= [ ]; if (@$$v) { printf "%5d ", (scalar @$$v); } else { printf "%5s ", ""; } } } printf "\n"; } sub drop ($$) { my ($i,$why) = @_; print "dropping $choices[$i]: $why\n"; $ch[$i]{Dropped} = $why; } if (defined $defi) { print "\nQuorum A.6(2) (quorum is $quorum)\n"; foreach my $i (0..$#choices) { next if $ch[$i]{Dropped}; next if $i == $defi; my $v = $vab[$i][$defi]; next if $v >= $quorum; drop $i, "quorum ($v < $quorum)"; } print "\nMajority ratio A.6(3)\n"; foreach my $i (0..$#choices) { next if $ch[$i]{Dropped}; next if $i == $defi; my $majr = $ch[$i]{Smaj}; $majr ||= [1,1]; # A.6(3)(3) my $vad = scalar @{ $vab[$i][$defi] }; my $vda = scalar @{ $vab[$defi][$i] }; next if $vad * $majr->[1] > $vda * $majr->[0]; drop $i, "majority ratio ($vad:$vda <= $majr->[1]:$majr->[0])"; } } print "\nDefeats A.6(4)\n"; my $defeats = Graph::Directed->new; sub chremain () { return grep { !$ch[$_]{Dropped} } (0..$#ch); } foreach my $ia (0..$#ch) { $defeats->add_vertex($choices[$ia]); foreach my $ib (0..$#ch) { my $vab = scalar @{ $vab[$ia][$ib] }; my $vba = scalar @{ $vab[$ib][$ia] }; next unless $vab > $vba; my $diff = $vab - $vba; print "defeat: $choices[$ia] beats $choices[$ib]", " ($vab > $vba = +$diff)\n"; $defeats->add_edge($choices[$ia],$choices[$ib]); my $label = "$diff($vab:$vba)"; if (@invotes_v < 10) { $label .= "\n". join ' ', @{ $vab[$ia][$ib] }; $label .= "\n/". join ' ', @{ $vab[$ib][$ia] }; } $defeats->set_edge_attribute($choices[$ia],$choices[$ib], label => $label); } } sub chvab ($$) { my ($ca,$cb) = @_; my $v = $vab[ $choices{$ca}{Index} ][ $choices{$cb}{Index} ]; return scalar @$v; } sub weaker ($$) { # A.6(7)(1) my ($def1,$def2) = @_; my ($ca,$cx) = @$def1; my ($cb,$cy) = @$def2; return 1 if chvab($ca, $cx) < chvab($cb, $cy); return 1 if chvab($ca, $cx) == chvab($cb, $cy) && chvab($cx, $ca) > chvab($cy, $cb); return 0; } our $showg = $defeats->deep_copy(); foreach my $ix (0..$#ch) { my $cho = $ch[$ix]; next unless $cho->{Dropped}; $defeats->delete_vertex($choices[$ix]); } our $schwartz; for (my $dropiter = 1; ; $dropiter++) { # loop from A6(5) print "defeats graph: $defeats\n"; print "\nTransitive closure A.6(5) (iteration $dropiter)\n"; my $tdefeats = $defeats->transitive_closure(); # this makes the debugging output prettier foreach my $ch (@choices) { $tdefeats->delete_edge($ch,$ch); } print "closure graph: $tdefeats\n"; print "\nSchwartz set A.6(6)\n"; $schwartz = $defeats->copy(); foreach my $ia (chremain()) { foreach my $ib (chremain()) { next if $tdefeats->has_edge($choices[$ia],$choices[$ib]); next if !$tdefeats->has_edge($choices[$ib],$choices[$ia]); print "not in Schwartz set: $choices[$ia] because $choices[$ib]\n"; $schwartz->delete_vertex($choices[$ia]); last; } } print "set: ", (join " ", $schwartz->vertices()), "\n"; print "\nDropping weakest defeats A.6(7)\n"; our @weakest = (); foreach my $edge ($schwartz->edges()) { # print " considering @$edge\n"; if (!@weakest) { # no weakest edges yet } elsif (weaker($edge, $weakest[0])) { # this edge is weaker than previous weakest, start new set @weakest = (); } elsif (weaker($weakest[0], $edge)) { # weakest edge is weaker than this one, ignore this one next; } else { # weakest edge is exactly as weak as this one, add this one } push @weakest, $edge; } last unless @weakest; my $w = $weakest[0]; printf "weakest defeats are %d > %d\n", chvab($w->[0], $w->[1]), chvab($w->[1], $w->[0]); foreach my $weakest (@weakest) { my ($ca,$cb) = @$weakest; print "a weakest defeat is $ca > $cb\n"; $defeats->delete_edge($ca,$cb); my $label = $showg->get_edge_attribute($ca,$cb,'label'); $label .= "\ndropped - weakest in iter.$dropiter"; $showg->set_edge_attribute($ca,$cb,'label',$label); $showg->set_edge_attribute($ca,$cb,'style','dotted'); $showg->set_edge_attribute($ca,$cb,'graphviz',{constraint=>0}); } print "\nDefeats within the Schwartz set, go round again\n"; } print "no defeats within the Schwartz set\n"; print "final schwartz set:\n\n"; my $winxlabel; if ($schwartz->vertices() == 1) { print "WINNER IS:\n"; $winxlabel = "winner"; } else { print "WINNER IS ONE OF (CASTING VOTE DECIDES):\n"; $winxlabel = "potential winner"; } printf " %-5s %s\n", $_, $choices{$_}{Desc} foreach ($schwartz->vertices()); if (defined $gfile) { foreach my $cho (values %choices) { my $chn = $choices[$cho->{Index}]; my $label = "\\$chn\n$cho->{Desc}"; if ($cho->{Dropped}) { $label .= "\nDropped: $cho->{Dropped}"; } if ($schwartz->has_vertex($chn)) { $label .= "\n$winxlabel"; } $showg->set_vertex_attribute($chn, 'label', $label); } my $gwriter = new Graph::Writer::GraphViz -format => 'ps'; $gwriter->write_graph($showg, $gfile); } print ".\n"; #p %choices; #p @vab;