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VoteVote Web Poll: trivia
5 candidates will be elected with 1 ballot cast.

Table form | Chart form: First Round | Next Round | Final Round | Ballot Depth | How it works | Main Page


Round 1    
--------- 16.7%
jacob  1.0  (100.0%) 
DDDDDDDDD :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
   
Results   Redistributed Votes (to these colors)
jacob Elected
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Note: If this doesn't make sense, try reading the How it works page, or view the table form.
The dotted line represents the number of votes that guarantees victory (16.7%).

In the first round, the first choices on each ballot are tallied.
jacob has enough votes to guarantee victory 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, if possible. This is actually done by counting a fraction of the ballots most recently counted for the winning candidate.
New colors:
M
brandon

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VoteVote Web Poll: trivia
5 candidates will be elected with 1 ballot cast.

Table form | Chart form: First Round | Next Round | Final Round | Previous Round | Ballot Depth | How it works | Main Page


Round 2    
--------- 16.7%
jacob  0.2  (16.7%) 
DDDDDDDDD :D
brandon  0.8  (83.3%) 
AAAAAAAAA :AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
   
Results   Redistributed Votes (to these colors)
brandon Elected
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC

Note: If this doesn't make sense, try reading the How it works page, or view the table form.
The dotted line represents the number of votes that guarantees victory (16.7%).

brandon has enough votes to guarantee victory 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, if possible. This is actually done by counting a fraction of the ballots most recently counted for the winning candidate.
New colors:
M
josh

Next Round














 

VoteVote Web Poll: trivia
5 candidates will be elected with 1 ballot cast.

Table form | Chart form: First Round | Next Round | Final Round | Previous Round | Ballot Depth | How it works | Main Page


Round 3    
--------- 16.7%
jacob  0.2  (16.7%) 
DDDDDDDDD :D
brandon  0.2  (16.7%) 
AAAAAAAAA :
josh  0.7  (66.7%) 
CCCCCCCCC :CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
   
Results   Redistributed Votes (to these colors)
josh Elected
BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB

Note: If this doesn't make sense, try reading the How it works page, or view the table form.
The dotted line represents the number of votes that guarantees victory (16.7%).

josh has enough votes to guarantee victory 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, if possible. This is actually done by counting a fraction of the ballots most recently counted for the winning candidate.
New colors:
M
cindy

Next Round














 

VoteVote Web Poll: trivia
5 candidates will be elected with 1 ballot cast.

Table form | Chart form: First Round | Next Round | Final Round | Previous Round | Ballot Depth | How it works | Main Page


Round 4    
--------- 16.7%
jacob  0.2  (16.7%) 
DDDDDDDDD :
brandon  0.2  (16.7%) 
AAAAAAAAA :
cindy  0.5  (50.0%) 
BBBBBBBBB :BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB
josh  0.2  (16.7%) 
CCCCCCCCC :
   
Results   Redistributed Votes (to these colors)
cindy Elected
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Note: If this doesn't make sense, try reading the How it works page, or view the table form.
The dotted line represents the number of votes that guarantees victory (16.7%).

cindy has enough votes to guarantee victory 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, if possible. This is actually done by counting a fraction of the ballots most recently counted for the winning candidate.
New colors:
M
katy

Next Round














  

VoteVote Web Poll: trivia
5 candidates will be elected with 1 ballot cast.

Table form | Chart form: First Round | Final Round | Previous Round | Ballot Depth | How it works | Main Page


Round 5    
--------- 16.7%
jacob  0.2  (16.7%) 
DDDDDDDDD :
brandon  0.2  (16.7%) 
AAAAAAAAA :
cindy  0.2  (16.7%) 
BBBBBBBBB :
josh  0.2  (16.7%) 
CCCCCCCCC :
katy  0.3  (33.3%) 
EEEEEEEEE :EEEEEEEEEE
   
Results  
brandonElected 
cindyElected 
joshElected 
jacobElected 
katyElected 

Note: If this doesn't make sense, try reading the How it works page, or view the table form.
The dotted line represents the number of votes that guarantees victory (16.7%).

katy has enough votes to guarantee victory 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.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 5" 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.

The Ballot Depth section shows how much lower rankings contributed to the tally.
















 

VoteVote Web Poll: trivia
5 candidates will be elected with 1 ballot cast.

Table form | Chart form: First Round | Final Round | Ballot Depth | How it works | Main Page


Ballot Depth: This shows how much the lower rankings on ballots contributed to the winning candidates.

Rank Fraction of votes for winners
1st 16.7% 
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2nd 16.7% 
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3rd 16.7% 
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4th 16.7% 
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5th 33.3% 
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