2012 Occupy Wall Street polls: Difference between revisions

In 2012, the Politics and Electoral Reform Working Group of [[W:Occupy Wall Street|Occupy Wall Street]] conducted experimental surveys in New York City to investigate how voters behave under four different voting methods: [[First Past the Post electoral system|Plurality voting]], [[Approval voting]], [[Score voting]] (0-5), and [[Instant-runoff voting|Instant-Runoff Voting]] (with a maximum of 3 rankings).<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|title=Podcast 2013-05-27: Follow-up with Occupy Wall Street's TJ Frawls|url=https://electology.org/podcasts/2013-05-27_tj_frawls|work=The Center for Election Science|date=2015-05-25|access-date=2018-09-23|language=en}}</ref> The polls were taken using custom software on iPads.<ref name=":3">{{Cite news|title=Occupy Wall Street's TJ Frawley on how to fix the US Electoral System - Manhattan Libertarian Party|url=http://manhattanlp.org/occupy-wall-streets-tj-frawley-on-how-to-fix-the-us-electoral-system/|work=Manhattan Libertarian Party|date=2013-01-09|access-date=2018-09-23|language=en-US}}</ref>

On Election Day, November 6, 2012, they polled 507 voters inside polling places<ref name=":3" /> in Manhattan's left-leaning 69th Assembly District. In this poll, every voter participated in all 4 voting systems.<ref name=":2" />