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== Preliminary pilot study ==
They first polled about 320 people at Occupy protest sites and events around Manhattan, to test the software and people's reactions.<ref name=":1" />
No adjustment was made to correct for the unrepresentativeness of the
The votes were tallied by hand, and it was much easier to tally the Approval and Score votes than the Instant-Runoff votes (which took 13 rounds).<ref name=":0" />
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== Exit poll ==
They polled over 300 voters using custom software on ipads in Manhattan's left-leaning 69th Assembly District.
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" />
Candidates: Obama; Romney; Jill Stein (Green Party); Peta Lindsay (Socialism and Liberation Party); Gary Johnson (Libertarian); Virgil Goode (Constitution Party)<ref name=":1" />
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