Below is the ranked ballot that was used in the August 2022 Alaska special election. The tabulation method is what differentiates the various ranked-voting methods.

She questioned whether a different tabulation method could have yielded a different outcome as well as whether the method did not equally count everyone’s second-choice vote.

Mapps raised questions about tabulation methods used in the ordinance like: “election threshold,” “transfer values” and “surplus fractions.” ...

Nye County has just over 33,000 registered voters and planned on using a hand-count as the secondary tabulation method to Dominion tabulators.

The county ended up using machines as the primary tabulation method with a parallel hand-count happening separately, essentially as a test run for future elections.