[EM] strategy-free Condorcet method after all!

Andrew Myers andru at cs.cornell.edu
Mon Nov 23 12:45:48 PST 2009


Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:
> Warren Smith has a copy of Tideman's election archive, as well as some 
> other data, here: http://rangevoting.org/TidemanData.html
>
> I haven't run the data through my simulator yet, but it seems cycles 
> are rare.
>
> There's also a database of STV elections at 
> http://www.openstv.org/stvdb . While they could be processed by my 
> program (if I write the correct converters), they are multiwinner 
> elections and so the frequency of cycles might not be relevant to what 
> would be the case for when voters are told the election is single-winner.
>
> Does anybody know of any data sources apart from the above?
I have ballot data from about 1500 elections run using CIVS. But I 
haven't had the time to write software to package it up nicely.

-- Andrew



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