bionic (1) openstv-run-election.1.gz

NAME

       OpenSTV - Single Transferable Vote and Instant Runoff Voting Software

SYNOPSIS

       openstv-run-election [OPTION] METHOD BALLOT_FILE

DESCRIPTION

       Runs  an  election  for  a given METHOD and BALLOT_FILE.  Results are printed to the standard output. The
       following methods are available:

           Approval
           Borda
           Bucklin
           CambridgeSTV
           Condorcet
           Coombs
           ERS97STV
           FTSTV
           GPCA2000STV
           IRV
           MeekNZSTV
           MeekQXSTV
           MeekSTV
           MinneapolisSTV
           NIrelandSTV
           QPQ
           RTSTV
           SNTV
           ScottishSTV
           SuppVote
           WarrenQXSTV
           WarrenSTV

OPTIONS

       -p PREC
              Override default precision (in digits).

       -r FORMAT
              Report format: CsvReport, HtmlReport, MinimalReport, TextReport or YamlReport

       -t TIEBREAK
              Strong tie-break method: random (default), alpha or index

       -w WEAKTIE
              Weak tie-break method: method-default (default), strong, forward or backward

       -s SEATS
              Number of seats (for text-format ballot files).

       -P     Profile and send output to profile.out

       -x NUM Specify repeat count (for profiling).

SEE ALSO

       Homepage: http://www.openstv.org/

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Severin Heiniger <severinheiniger@gmail.com> for the Debian  system  (but
       may be used by others).

       Permission  is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General
       Public License, Version 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-
       licenses/GPL.