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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.