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== Preliminary pilot study ==
They first polled about 320 people at Occupy protest sites and events around Manhattan, in the spring of 2012, to test the software and people's reactions.<ref name=":1" />
No adjustment was made to correct for the unrepresentativeness of the Occupy voters; it was just to compare voting behavior under different systems.<ref name=":0">https://electology.org/podcasts/2012-08-20_tj_rawls</ref>
The votes were tallied by hand, and it was much easier to tally the Approval and Score votes than the Instant-Runoff votes (which
== Exit poll ==
No adjustment was made to correct for the unrepresentativeness of the district, though polling only took place in a single district, so that the poll's plurality results could be compared with the results of the actual election in that district (and they were well-correlated).<ref name=":1" />
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