Re: [EM] San Francisco IRV Counting rules & possible bad ballots

2005-03-17 Thread Eric Gorr
Bart Ingles wrote: Eric Gorr wrote: I believe the numbers you are looking for are contained within the published results at: http://www.sfgov.org/site/uploadedfiles/election/results.htm I've seen the round-by-round result on the SF web site, but I believe you'd have to crunch through the ballot

Re: [EM] San Francisco IRV Counting rules & possible bad ballots

2005-03-17 Thread Bart Ingles
Eric Gorr wrote: I believe the numbers you are looking for are contained within the published results at: http://www.sfgov.org/site/uploadedfiles/election/results.htm I've seen the round-by-round result on the SF web site, but I believe you'd have to crunch through the ballots to know exactly ho

Re: [EM] San Francisco IRV Counting rules & possible bad ballots

2005-03-17 Thread Eric Gorr
Bart Ingles wrote: It would be interesting to know how many ballots were exhausted because the voter voluntarily ranked only one or two candidates, versus the number exhausted because all three permitted choices were eliminated. Put another way, how many three-ranked ballots did not contain a vo

Re: [EM] San Francisco IRV Counting rules & possible bad ballots

2005-03-16 Thread Bart Ingles
Eric Gorr wrote: I found the reason why my counts were different from the official tally for District 9, but this leads to more confusion on how the ballots were counted...is anyone more familiar with the IRV counting rules used in SF then myself? It would be interesting to know how many ballots

[EM] San Francisco IRV Counting rules & possible bad ballots

2005-03-15 Thread Eric Gorr
I found the reason why my counts were different from the official tally for District 9, but this leads to more confusion on how the ballots were counted...is anyone more familiar with the IRV counting rules used in SF then myself? First, there were only 7 candidates in the race...6 named and 1