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.