title: Get started description: Set up a development environment for Apache STeVe v3 or work with the STV tally tools.

Get started

Apache STeVe is a collection of voting tools. Start with the v3 application to work on elections and ballots, or use the tally tools to explore results from a closed election.

Set up the v3 application

Current application development happens in the v3/ directory. It uses Python, uv, and SQLite.

Follow the v3 Getting Started Guide for the complete setup, including dependencies, the database, test data, configuration, and development certificates.

The guide describes a development environment. The ASF deployment also uses ASF-specific authentication and configuration; discuss deployment questions on the development mailing list.

Work with STV results

The monitoring tools include the shared Meek STV tally engine. Use a v3 vote-results.json file for new tallies:

python3 monitoring/stv_tool.py path/to/vote-results.json

The whatif.py tool explores different seat counts and candidate selections. Its documentation also explains which historical ballot formats are supported.

Find your next step

  • Documentation links to the data model, testing guide, and voting implementations.
  • Community explains how to ask questions, report issues, and contribute.
  • Downloads describes release availability and how to get the development source.