| VoteVote Web Poll: Cat 1 |
| 3 candidates will be elected with 1 ballot cast. |
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Note: If this doesn't make sense, try reading the How it works page.
In the first round, the first choices on each ballot are tallied.
test3 has enough votes to guarantee victory
(25%) and is declared a winner.To ensure that everyone's vote counts equally, votes that exceed that threshold are counted toward their next highest ranking (this is actually done by counting a fraction of ballots cast for the winning candidate).
Click to go to the next round.
| VoteVote Web Poll: Cat 1 |
| 3 candidates will be elected with 1 ballot cast. |
First Round | Next Round | Final Round | Previous Round | Ballot Depth | How it works | Main Page
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Note: If this doesn't make sense, try reading the How it works page.
test4 has enough votes to guarantee victory
(25%) and is declared a winner.To ensure that everyone's vote counts equally, votes that exceed that threshold are counted toward their next highest ranking (this is actually done by counting a fraction of ballots cast for the winning candidate).
Click to go to the next round.
| VoteVote Web Poll: Cat 1 |
| 3 candidates will be elected with 1 ballot cast. |
First Round | Final Round | Previous Round | Ballot Depth | How it works | Main Page
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Note: If this doesn't make sense, try reading the How it works page.
test2 has enough votes to guarantee victory
(25%) and is declared a winner.
In the end, 100%
of votes counted toward a winner.
This compares to 100%
if only the first-round votes were used.
Click to look at the
first round.
You should be able to see that the winners have a more equal mandate in the final round than in the first round.
Note that even the "highest first-round votes" method is more democratic than most methods used in US public elections: the "vote for 3" method, which allows the largest block of voters to dominate, and the district method, where choices are restricted to the one or two viable candidates within geographical boundaries drawn by the politicians in office.
Also, click to look at the Ballot Depth info to see how much lower rankings contributed to the tally.
| VoteVote Web Poll: Cat 1 |
| 3 candidates will be elected with 1 ballot cast. |
First Round | Last Round | Ballot Depth | How it works | Main Page
Ballot Depth: This shows how much the lower rankings on ballots contributed to the winning candidates.
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