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Add an extensible base class for election systems, and implement first past the post.

The framework should be extensible for systems that require preference orders as well as those that simply require first preferences.

Implement the MMP voting system.

This is a special case since voters are voting in multiple electorates (for list MPs + local MPs).

Implement Single Transferrable Vote voting system. This system depends on preferences.

This is an extension of the original dissertation.

There are two main steps to this.

1. given real world data + real world preference swapping data, we fit the dataset to the spatial model and then work out a suitable function to determine likelihood of preference swapping based on relative distance between voters and parties.

2. We fit real world data to the spatial model, then use the function for inferring preference swapping.