[EM] breakdown of Oakland mayor ballots

[Kristofer Munsterhjelm]

Sand W wrote:
> Here are the results on an actual election: 
> http://www.demochoice.org/dcresults.php?poll=OakMayor&type=table 
> <http://www.demochoice.org/dcresults.php?poll=OakMayor&type=table>
> 
> Perata (or maybe someone in his camp) accuses the other candidates of 
> "gaming the system" by promoting each other as 2nd choices.
> 
> Some challengers tried to do that to IRV-leader Kriss Worthington too, 
> but he won by a landslide.

Unfortunately, there isn't enough data here to check who would won under 
other methods, except for Plurality (where Don Perata would have won). 
To find out the social order for a Condorcet method, one would need the 
Condorcet matrix, and for most other methods, the raw ballot data itself.

> What you could really do if you are serious about promoting a different 
> ranking system is to download  the "Demochoice Code" and rewrite it to 
> use your preferred voting system, then put it online, because the code 
> is public domain.

A similar poll system, CIVS, uses Condorcet methods (one can choose 
whether to use Schulze, Ranked Pairs/MAM, or "Smith,IRV"). The source 
code is freely available at 
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/w8/~andru/civs/changelog.html .