debian man page for openstv-run-election

OPENSTV-RUN-ELECTION(1) 				      General Commands Manual					   OPENSTV-RUN-ELECTION(1)

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.

1.6								     May 2010						   OPENSTV-RUN-ELECTION(1)