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STAR Voting is an upgrade to our current way of voting that allows voters to score candidates from 0 to 5. Ultimately, STAR Voting elects candidates who better represent the whole of the electorate. We are building a site that lets everyone from individuals to organizations use STAR Voting to host simple polls or run secure elections.

Stars: 72
Forks: 57
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 381
Avg merge: 1d 6h
Merged PRs (30d): 16

Dominant language: TypeScript
License: AGPL-3.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 19, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: good first issue

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381 open issues indexed

The "Set Number Of Rankings Allowed" setting displays for STAR Voting. Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1660 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
Preparations for FOSS United Election Open

Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1652 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 17, 2026
SOC 2 Compliance Open

Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1647 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 15, 2026
Colors are unclear in EnhancedTable header Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 74/100

Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1612 · Opened Sep 8, 2026
Upload Ballots dialog on Manage Voters Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1610 · Opened Sep 8, 2026
CVR parsers for the ballot-export CSV and JSON formats Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1609 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 8, 2026
Hide Vote button and show banner when browser voting is disabled Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1608 · Opened Sep 8, 2026
Submission-channel checkboxes on the Settings page Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 74/100

Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1607 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 8, 2026
Spec: Allow election admins to bulk upload ballots Open

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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1603 · Opened Sep 8, 2026
Do a first pass applying linting across the repo Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1593 · Opened Aug 31, 2026
Build Stripe webhook endpoint, applyVoterLimitPurchase fulfillment & receipt email Open

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Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1587 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 24, 2026
Build Checkout Session creation endpoint (cart validation + Stripe session) Open

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Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1586 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 24, 2026
Wire voter-limit resolution hierarchy, payment-required response & lock down voter_limit in editElectionController Open

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Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1585 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 24, 2026
Multi-winner races export only the final seat's tieBreakType — a random draw that decided seat 1 of a Bloc STAR / Approval / Plurality / Ranked Robin race reports tieBreakType: 'none' Open

Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1582 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 21, 2026
Parent: Review Election Export Syntax Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1581 · Opened Aug 19, 2026
Parent: Review Abstention Policy Open

Role: Product Lead

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1580 · Opened Aug 19, 2026
Parent: Disagreements with Ranked Robin Tiebreaker protocol Open

Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1579 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 19, 2026
CI: flag translation values that are still byte-identical to English Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1575 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 19, 2026
Interpolated nouns can't be grammatical in gendered languages — hit independently by de, fr, it, and pl Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1574 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 19, 2026
Prototype Add Voters payment modal & Upgrade tier button Open

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Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1569 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 17, 2026
Phase 1 Payment System: Design & Build Map Open

wayfinder:map

Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1566 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 17, 2026
Election wizard promises BetterVoting will email voting links automatically; nothing is ever sent Open

(old) bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1558 · Opened Aug 17, 2026
Documentation program: ~20 new help pages for voters and administrators (28 PRs) Open

Role: Writing

Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1556 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 17, 2026
Filtering a table to zero rows shows the "you have no elections" empty state Open

Role: Front End

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1525 · Opened Aug 15, 2026
Add Voters: duplicate check keys on email only, so a voter-ID list is always "duplicates" and all but one row is silently discarded Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1513 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 14, 2026
Odd scroll/save behavior Open

Role: Missing

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1512 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 14, 2026
How to process the PR queue + PR bot Open

Discussion

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1511 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 12, 2026
Update CLAUDE.md to help encourage best practices for PR and issue descriptions Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1510 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 12, 2026
A ballot that scores every candidate the same is dropped from the STAR tally as an abstention (minimal case: 2 candidates, a `5,5`) Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 76/100

Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1508 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 10, 2026
Allocated Score (STAR_PR) results always report tieBreakType: 'random', even when no tie occurred Open

Difficulty 2/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 82/100

Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1507 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 9, 2026
Bloc STAR ballot never says the count repeats — a multi-seat ballot explains only the first seat Open

Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1488 · Opened Aug 6, 2026
Range of Scores chart and the page headline use different denominators (flat ballots) Open

Complexity: Small Role: Front End Track Via Parent

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1487 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 6, 2026
Bulk ballot upload needs a defined ballot format — the parser #810 plans to reuse is rank-only and takes the method from the filename Open

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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1486 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 6, 2026
Record the abstention policy on the race, so an export says what was *allowed* — not just what voters did Open

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Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1485 · Opened Aug 6, 2026
STAR Race Details tables use the second-highest scorer instead of the tiebreak runner-up, contradicting the runoff chart on the same page Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1484 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 6, 2026
Backend test suite flakes ~1 run in 12: shared process + leaked MockEventQueue timers Open

Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1481 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 4, 2026
A partial ballot whose marks are all equal is dropped from the tally as an abstention (BV2105 `r4dqvd`, re-confirmed on `w3vvff`) Open

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Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1478 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 4, 2026
Show the election's creation date in the UI — currently only visible in raw API JSON Open

Complexity: Small good first issue Role: Front End

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 74/100

Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1472 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 3, 2026
Results bar chart: percentage labels and the majority marker use different denominators Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1471 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 3, 2026
Approving a write-in silently discards ordinary ballots as "abstentions" — and can change the winner Open

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Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1470 · Opened Aug 3, 2026
Ranked Robin: 3+-way Copeland ties skip the official margins tiebreaker (1st Degree) and fall straight to random Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 74/100

Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1469 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 1, 2026
Ranked Robin: chart stars wrong candidate when Copeland tie is broken by head-to-head runoff Open

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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1468 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 1, 2026
Add Clarissa to the contributor list Open

good first issue Role: Front End

Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1461 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 29, 2026
Vote count dashboard Open

Complexity: Small Role: Front End

Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1458 · 6 comments · 2 assignees · Opened Jul 27, 2026
Results page: unify "Equal Support" vs "no preference" wording Open

Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1456 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 26, 2026
summary bar view - maybe we need a report to clarify the results Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1444 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 17, 2026
Add yearly, per-method breakdown to GlobalElectionStats API Open

Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1443 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 17, 2026
Onboarding Issue: Developer: Clarissa Open

Role: Back End Role: Front End

Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1442 · 8 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 15, 2026
Avoid candidate names wrapping to 4 lines Open

Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1440 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 15, 2026
Elections created via API call - unable to manage the write-ins Open

Equal-Vote/bettervoting#1434 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 13, 2026

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