There's a brief description of the project in the repo wiki:

https://github.com/mechanicalgirl/progressive_voting/wiki

Create a virtual environment:

cd ~/path/to/progressive_voting/
virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate

To run locally:

cd ~/path/to/progressive_voting/
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
cd voting
python3 manage.py migrate
python3 manage.py runserver

To create a superuser (for admin access):

cd ~/path/to/progressive_voting/voting
python3 manage.py createsuperuser

To view:

Admin:           http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/
Main:            http://127.0.0.1:8000/