[EM] inaccurate Fargo approval voting results

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Michael—as mentioned, the error was a minor mistake in converting the vote
totals to percentages, because Fargo didn’t report turnout (so it had to be
estimated based on votes on other ballot initiatives).

It’s not a tabulation error, like the ones we’ve seen for IRV elections.
IRV races have sometimes even declared the wrong winner because of the
complexity of aggregating all the votes (non-summability).

On Fri, Jun 7, 2024 at 7:47 PM Michael Garman <michael.garman at rankthevote.us>
wrote:

> 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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