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== Preliminary pilot study ==
They first polled
"If this year's elections were held today, what party's candidates would you favor?" with candidates:<ref name=":2" />
* Democratic Party
* Green Party
* Independent candidates
* Republican Party
* Libertarian Party
* Socialist Party
* A write-in option
No adjustment was made to correct for the unrepresentativeness of the voters; who were primarily OWS participants;<ref name=":2" /> 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 required 13 elimination rounds to find a winner).<ref name=":0" />
The Democratic Party won the plurality election by a small margin, with a total of 35% of the votes. The Green Party won under the other 3 methods.<ref name=":2" />
== Exit poll ==
On Election Day, November 6, 2012, they polled over 300 voters using custom software on
In this poll, every voter participated in all 4 voting systems.<ref name=":2" />
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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http://manhattanlp.org/occupy-wall-streets-tj-frawley-on-how-to-fix-the-us-electoral-system/
http://web.archive.org/web/20130728110015/http://www.paercom.net/downloads/files/Press%20Release.pdf
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