[EM] Debian leader 2006

[Warren Smith]

I entered the Debian leader election of 2006 into Rob Lanphier's
electowidget system and let 'er rip, and the result is
http://wikitest.electorama.com/wiki/Election:2006_DPL

and every voting method agrees Towns wins except range and approval both say McIntyre wins.

I suspect RobL's method for converting ranked ballots to range and approval ballots
tends to be distortionary and favor better known candidates as opposed
to better candidates.   (I.e. unknowns maybe tend to be left unranked
by the voters).  Or I just converted the data wrong.



Anyhow, I have a question.  Look at the Instant Runoff results in detail.

It looks to me like the electowidget printout is erroneous i.e prints out the wrong guys in
each round.   Same problem happened in the 2005 DPL elections and 2003.

Warren D Smith
http://www.rangevoting.org