2012 Occupy Wall Street polls

On Election Day, November 6, 2012, the Politics and Electoral Reform Working Group of Occupy Wall Street conducted an experimental survey in New York City to investigate how voters behave under four different voting methods.

They polled over 300 voters using custom software on ipads in Manhattan's left-leaning 69th Assembly District.

Preliminary test poll

They polled over 300 people at Occupy protest sites

No adjustment was made to correct for the unrepresentativeness of the district; it was just to compare voting behavior under different systems.

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).

References

http://manhattanlp.org/occupy-wall-streets-tj-frawley-on-how-to-fix-the-us-electoral-system/

https://electology.org/podcasts/2012-08-20_tj_rawls

https://electology.org/podcasts/2013-05-27_tj_frawls

https://electology.org/sites/default/files/Full%20Report.pdf

http://web.archive.org/web/20130728110015/http://www.paercom.net/downloads/files/Press%20Release.pdf