On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 12:23 AM McCoy Smith <mc...@lexpan.law> wrote:
> If you go just on the cumulative numbers, there were 1,061 votes cast, so > (82+36)/1,061 = 11.1%, as you note. > > If you go to the ballot tracker ( > https://vote.heliosvoting.org/helios/elections/d93efdc8-5c7e-11ea-9fd6-dac1e2b1446f/voters/list), > there were 338 individual voters who cast votes, so 338/1,061 = 31.8%. > That’s more in the ballpark of the quoted 35%. If you use that > calculation, and you combine Ehmke+Langel, percentages are: > > 1. *Josh Simmons: 224 (66%)* > 2. *Megan Byrd-Sanicki: 198 (58%)* > 3. Ashley Wolf: 137 (41%) > 4. Coraline Ada Ehmke: 82+ Tobie Langel: 36 (32%) > 5. McCoy Smith: 92 (27%) > 6. Chris Short: 67 (20%) > 7. Mario Behling: 60 (18%) > 8. Mekki MacAulay: 56 (17%) > 9. George Kraft: 39 (11%) > 10. John Tredennick: 36 (11%) > > But why would you sum up Coraline and Tobie? The most likely explanation is that the same set of people (11%) voted for both of them, if they wanted to support ethical source. If we're going to sum up votes from the same voter, then by the same logic there's 124% support for the platform that Josh and Megan represent. Gil's analysis seems to more accurately reflect how approval voting works. henrik -- henrik.i...@avoinelama.fi +358-40-5697354 skype: henrik.ingo irc: hingo www.openlife.cc My LinkedIn profile: http://fi.linkedin.com/pub/henrik-ingo/3/232/8a7
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