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 ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
