electionscience / vse-sim

Methods for running simulations to calculate Voter Satisfaction Efficiency (VSE) of various voting systems in various conditions.
https://electionscience.github.io/vse-sim
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Try to pull in real-world voter patterns into data seeding #29

Open marcosb opened 3 years ago

marcosb commented 3 years ago

I will try to get this if I can, but wanted to file an issue to track (& just in case anyone gets to it before me)

I wonder if it makes sense to pull some data from real-world elections (e.g. https://abc7ny.com/ranked-choice-voting-nyc-mayoral-race-democratic-primary-eric-adams/10884814/) into voter behaviors?

For example, it'd be interesting to include ~20% of voters only voting for 1 candidate (assuming that's a common ratio), as well as differences in voting patterns when # of candidates > # of voting positions (this specifically only applies when the # of rankings is < # of candidates)