[EM] inaccurate Fargo approval voting results

[Michael Garman]

Turns out approval has its own counting vulnerabilities. I hope someone
lets Harper’s magazine know!

On Fri, Jun 7, 2024 at 10:42 PM Michael Ossipoff <email9648742 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for the information. Though some of us will write to them about the
> mis-reporting, I hope that you will too, or already have. They should
> definitely hear from the person who noticed it, & not just 2nd-hand.
>
> It’s a relief that the winners have been correctly reported.
>
> Again, thank you for pointing that error out.
>
> On Fri, Jun 7, 2024 at 05:28 Evangeline Moore <evangeline.moore at ih21.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I work at a Czech institute researching voting methods, and a while back
>> I took an interest in the approval voting elections in Fargo. While I was
>> running the numbers, trying to build a model for a separate project, I
>> noticed that the approval vote results have never been accurately reported
>> in Fargo. The winners are right, but the percentages are not. They've never
>> crossed 50% approval despite being widely reported that way.
>>
>> I posted an explanation of this on our website:
>> https://www.ih21.org/aktuality/approval-voting-in-fargo When I realized
>> that another election is coming up and that, as far as I can tell, nobody
>> else has made the methodology publicly known yet, I wanted to get this out
>> there. I also thought you guys might find it interesting.
>>
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