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 .
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