[EM] San Francisco Mini-ranked vote

Eric Gorr eric at ericgorr.net
Mon Nov 15 08:42:27 PST 2004


At 12:13 AM -0800 11/14/04, Brian Olson wrote:
>Using the same engine as the Election Calculator I ran the 
>preliminary data through a collection of election methods. It turns 
>out that no race was close enough to wind up with different results 
>when a different method is used. But, if you want to see Condorcet 
>or Ranked Pairs tables, or IRV counts, or whatever, here are the 
>results:
>
>http://bolson.org/voting/sf2004/

Very nice find.

I had no idea they were going to release the individual ballots.

Fortunately, it is only a matter of time before there is a case of a 
close race where the method used (and perhaps even IRV tiebreak used) 
would make a difference in who wins.

I don't suppose you have the ballots in the form of 1:a>b>c ?

It would be easy enough for me to write the code to get them into 
that form, but I figure you've probably either done it or written the 
hardest part already which would be to parse the text.




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