At the moment, one of the most useful things you can do is sort by cast votes (both your personal votes and those collected across the community) as described in this post. I realize you are probably aware of this but just for the benefit of everyone else I will link to it:
As for automated scanning and comparison of tickets, this is something Armin has been working to improve recently. I believe he gave a few details about this in a separate thread, so for completeness I’ll also link it here:
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