Introduction to Objects - Advanced Topics in Java: Core Concepts in Data Structures - page 61

votes.txt , contains the names of the candidates. The first name is considered as
candidate 1, the second as candidate 2, and so on. The names are followed by the votes. Write
a program to read the data and evaluate the results of the election. Print all output to the file
results.txt .
Your output should specify the total number of votes, the number of valid votes, and the

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number of spoiled votes. This is followed by the votes obtained by each candidate and the
winner(s) of the election.

Given this data in votes.txt :

Nirvan Singh
Denise Duncan
Avasa Tawari
Torrique Granger
Saskia Kalicharan
Dawren Greenidge
Jordon Cato

3 1 6 5 4 3 5 3 5 3 2 8 1 6 7 7 3 5
6 9 3 4 7 1 2 4 5 5 1 4 0

your program should send the following output to results.txt :

Invalid vote: 8
Invalid vote: 9

Number of voters: 30
Number of valid votes: 28
Number of spoilt votes: 2

Candidate Score

Nirvan Singh 4
Denise Duncan 2
Avasa Tawari 6
Torrique Granger 4
Saskia Kalicharan 6
Dawren Greenidge 3
Jordon Cato 3

The winner(s)
Avasa Tawari
Saskia Kalicharan

We will use the following outline for solving this problem:

get the names and set the scores to 0
process the votes
print the results