The Electoral Commission provides a daily (during the week) update at 2pm as to the number of advance votes cast the day (or weekend) before. I’ve changed the name of it to avoid confusion regarding votes for Advance NZ.
The stats for the weekend are:
9 October: 119,406
10 October: 253,616
11 October: 199,810
Cumulative thus far: 1,153,334
As a % of total 2017 votes (2,630,173): 43.85%
2017 equivalent cumulative: 444,032
2014 equivalent cumulative: 225,513
Advance votes will be counted beginning at 9am on Election Day and the preliminary results will be released progressively from 7pm.
Source: https://elections.nz/stats-and-research/2020-general-election-advance-voting-statistics/
Hi everyone,
Just finished putting together the cumulative voting code to gather the total amount of yes/no votes as well as times watered/times not watered.
This will be posted each week alongside the weekly stats. It also includes the user with the most votes of all time and the user who is the most accurate of all time!
Let me know if you have any suggestions!
HELP!!! Can someone please explain this to me?
While thinking about a different problem I came up with something that I think is a shortcut to proportional approval voting.
We know that PAV is very demanding to compute for many candidates. Sequential PAV (SPAV) is better, but we still need to recalculate the ballots for every seat we assign (it also gives slightly different results). The shortcut I came up with works well for many seats and many candidates. It also can simply be turned into a rated ballot without any extra calculation (edit: needs KP-transform), but for simplicity I will describe the approval version.
In short (leaving out important details) we do the following:
- Vote approval or score style
- Throw out all candidates with no chance of winning
- Redistribute their votes
- Repeat 2 and 3 until as many candidates remain as there are seats to fill
Given we have N seats to fill and C candidates. The ballot looks like a normal approval ballot, one mark per candidate. In the first step people go to vote and can mark as many candidate as they like. The vote then is distributed among them - n candidates gives everyone 1/n points. This is equivalent to equal and even cumulative voting (which has flaws that we will get rid of in the later steps).
Example for two seats, six candidates.
| candidate | vote here |
|---|---|
| A | |
| B | |
| C | X |
| D | |
| E | X |
| F | X |
We then sum all points for each candidate. This gives us a first round ranking of all candidates. From those the top N ranks get a "preliminary seat". This just means we keep in mind who could win a seat. By looking at the Nth candidates result we know that for everyone else, in order to become elected, they have to beat the this result.
In this example A and B are the top two. In order to get a seat one needs to beat Bs 30%.
| candidate | result |
|---|---|
| A | 35% |
| B | 30% |
| C | 25% |
| D | 5% |
| E | 3% |
| F | 2% |
Starting from the bottom of the list we can eliminate those candidates that have no chance of winning. The last one is dropped right away. Then we ask; If we drop the last candidate and redistribute their votes, can the next candidate claim a seat? For each candidate were the answer is no, we can drop them, and add their results up to compare against the Nth preliminary winner. When the answer is yes, we terminate.
In the example F is dropped. E, now with potentially 5% at maximum has no chance and two is
... keep reading on reddit ➡-
https://www.fairvote.org/texas_cumulative_voting_rights
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https://texaspolitics.utexas.edu/archive/html/vce/features/0601_01/slide1.html
FYI cumulative voting is a sort of scored/rated voting system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulative_voting
Why is cumulative voting system beneficial only for minority shareholders? From my understanding, if a shareholder get 300 votes with 100 shares (there are 3 candidates) then another with 1000 shares also get 3000 votes, right?
The sentence ‘the way the math works, a holder of 30% of the firm’s shares could choose three of ten directors with cumulative voting but could elect no directors under statutory voting’ from Schweser is under an assumption that shareholders with more then 30% are going to split their votes?
The Electoral Commission provides a daily update at 2pm as to the number of advance votes cast the day before. I’ve changed the name of it to avoid confusion regarding votes for Advance NZ.
The stats for 12 October are:
Daily count: 124,713
Cumulative: 1,282,478
As a % of total 2017 votes (2,630,173): 48.76%
2017 equivalent cumulative: 549,260
2014 equivalent cumulative: 286,479
Advance votes will be counted beginning at 9am on Election Day and the preliminary results will be released progressively from 7pm.
Source: https://elections.nz/stats-and-research/2020-general-election-advance-voting-statistics/
The Electoral Commission provides a daily update at 2pm as to the number of advance votes cast the day before. I’ve changed the name of it to avoid confusion regarding votes for Advance NZ.
The stats for 13 October are:
Daily count: 132,398
Cumulative: 1,418,171
As a % of total 2017 votes (2,630,173): 53.92%
2017 equivalent cumulative: 672,567 (25.57% of total vote)
2014 equivalent cumulative: 349,074 (14.27% of total votes)
Advance votes will be counted beginning at 9am on Election Day and the preliminary results will be released progressively from 7pm.
Source: https://elections.nz/stats-and-research/2020-general-election-advance-voting-statistics/
The Electoral Commission provides a daily update at 2pm as to the number of advance votes cast the day before. I’ve changed the name of it to avoid confusion regarding votes for Advance NZ.
The stats for 15 October are:
Daily count: 176,229
Cumulative: 1,742,960
As a % of total 2017 votes (2,630,173): 66.27%
2017 equivalent cumulative: 987,267 (37.54%)
2014 equivalent cumulative: 557,112 (22.77%)
Advance votes will be counted beginning at 9am on Election Day and the preliminary results will be released progressively from 7pm.
Source: https://elections.nz/stats-and-research/2020-general-election-advance-voting-statistics/
The Electoral Commission provides a daily update at 2pm as to the number of advance votes cast the day before. I’ve changed the name of it to avoid confusion regarding votes for Advance NZ.
The stats for 14 October are:
Daily count: 147,504
Cumulative: 1,565,421
As a % of total 2017 votes (2,630,173): 59.52%
2017 equivalent cumulative: 806,380 (30.66%)
2014 equivalent cumulative: 435,095 (17.79%)
Advance votes will be counted beginning at 9am on Election Day and the preliminary results will be released progressively from 7pm.
Source: https://elections.nz/stats-and-research/2020-general-election-advance-voting-statistics/
