Joel wrote:
Hi,
Thanks to Kalin who did the initial tallies and Jason Hise who wrote the IRV tallying program, we have a winner: Simeon Nasilowski, entry number 67. The winning variation is 67b.
Unless there are some more objections, or if someone can spot a bug in Jason Hise's program, we have a winner. Attached here is Jason's IRV program and the input file. I'd like to invite boosters to go check it out.
I'm not sure about votes like: vote: 37 37 37 37 37 and votes like: vote: 50 50 83 83 75 Does the IRV voting allows listing the same candidate several times? Will this skew the resuls? Also: vote: 0 75 75 38 1 Does not look correct. Don't we number candidates from 1? OTOH, the attached Python script I've just wrote by looking at http://www.electionmethods.org/IRVexample.htm produces the same results: '67' is the winner and '75' is the runner-up. - Volodya