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

[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 ballots to know exactly how many of the 
> exhausted ballots contained less than three choices.  Of course we'll 
> never know how many voters would have ranked more than three.

It shouldn't be terribly difficult to write the code necessary to 
determine. I've already got the ballots in a form to make this a bit easier.

But, I'm curious, what would be interesting about this result?