Supervisor: Tim Peters <>
Announced end of poll: in a about a week
Actual time poll closed:
This is a public poll.
Actual votes cast: 16
Number of winning choices:
Condorcet completion rule:    (What is this?)
Minimax
Schulze/Beatpath/CSSD
CIVS Ranked Pairs
MAM
Condorcet-IRV

Poll description

This is a test "election", just to see how different methods would score it. Nobody is actually being elected to anything here. Instead the final ballots will be downloaded and run through various scoring algorithms. No identifying information is attached to the ballots, and the ballots are delivered in a randomized order. While the rankings on your ballot will be visisble, there's nothing to connect your ballot to you. There's also no record of who voted.

Please rank the candidates in order of preference, from most (top) to least (bottom). It's fine to give multiple candidates the same rank if you have no preference among them.

There's a fictional candidate, "APPROVAL CUTOFF". Please rank that one strictly below all the candidates you would approve of in an Approval election, and strictly above all the candidates you would not approve of.

Ranking is needed so we can see what various Condorcet scoring methods would do. APPROVAL CUTOFF is needed so we can also see what various Approval scoring methods would do.

Result

1. Pablo  (Condorcet winner: wins contests with all other choices)
2. Carol  loses to Pablo by 11–4
3. Barry  loses to Pablo by 11–4, loses to Carol by 7–5
4. Brett  loses to Pablo by 10–5, loses to Barry by 7–5
5. Mariatta  loses to Pablo by 11–1, loses to Brett by 9–4
6. Thomas  loses to Pablo by 13–2, loses to Mariatta by 7–6
7. Christian  loses to Pablo by 13–1, loses to Thomas by 8–5
8. David  loses to Pablo by 14–1, loses to Christian by 7–6
9. Raymond  loses to Pablo by 10–4, loses to David by 8–7
10. APPROVAL CUTOFF  loses to Pablo by 14–0, loses to Raymond by 8–6
11. Matt  loses to Pablo by 15–0, loses to APPROVAL CUTOFF by 9–3

For simplicity, some details of the poll result are not shown.  

Result details

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1. Pablo   -11 11 10 11 13 13 14 10 14 15
2. Carol   4 -7 8 10 11 9 12 11 14 14
3. Barry   4 5 -7 11 11 12 11 9 11 12
4. Brett   5 3 5 -9 9 10 8 8 8 9
5. Mariatta   1 4 3 4 -7 10 8 10 9 9
6. Thomas   2 2 3 2 6 -8 6 9 8 10
7. Christian   1 5 3 3 3 5 -7 8 8 9
8. David   1 2 4 5 5 7 6 -8 8 11
9. Raymond   4 4 5 6 5 6 7 7 -8 8
10. APPROVAL CUTOFF   0 1 3 5 5 6 7 6 6 -9
11. Matt   0 0 2 3 4 3 5 2 6 3 -

Ballot report

 Barry Brett Carol Christian David APPROVAL CUTOFF Mariatta Matt Pablo Raymond Thomas
1. 9 8 1 11 4 7 10 6 2 2 5
2. 3 3 3 2 9 7 1 10 1 11 8
3. 4 1 2 8 6 11 9 5 3 10 7
4. 2 3 2 7 8 5 6 10 1 9 4
5. 6 2 1 5 7 8 3 10 4 11 9
6. 3 1 6 5 9 8 4 10 2 11 7
7. 1 1 1 2 3 4 2 6 2 11 1
8. 6 11 3 11 4 5 6 5 2 1 11
9. 11 11 6 1 1 11 2 11 2 11 3
10. 3 8 2 11 6 7 4 10 1 5 9
11. 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11
12. 2 11 5 4 11 11 11 11 3 1 11
13. 5 11 11 11 11 8 11 11 8 4 11
14. 4 1 7 6 10 9 5 8 3 11 2
15. 6 8 4 11 3 5 9 7 2 1 10
16. 1 3 3 10 9 8 6 11 2 7 5

Ballots are shown in a randomly generated order.

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