[EM] inaccurate Fargo approval voting results

[Michael Garman]

“When my preferred method breaks down, it’s just one of those things. When
any other method breaks down, it’s incontrovertible evidence that the
method is worthless.”

On Fri, Jun 7, 2024 at 10:47 PM Michael Ossipoff <email9648742 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Errors happen . If it had been a Condorcet or IRV election, does anyone
> want to bet that an error wouldn’t be more likely to elect the wrong
> person? …as it has already done in IRV.
>
> On Fri, Jun 7, 2024 at 19:41 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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