Porce News Network February 2007 Election Results (in progress)

[minionofmidas]

It really wouldn't be the first time it happened.  IIRC, I won by one vote, and others did too.

Again, my point is missed.  I'm saying my vote should be counted

But it can't. We have rules and those rules say you can't edit your vote, period.

I'm saying that I was unaware and that rule sucks and is pointless.  What is the big deal about editing a vote?  Obviously you did it and not someone else.

The intention is to not let you change your vote late in the election in order to throw it (with IRV, you can eliminate some candidate early. With fptp, of course it's even easier.)
Of course, you're right in saying that the rule can suck. We had even worse rules at one point that thankfully got thrown out by now, but this is one's a holdover from when we made voting difficult for people.

[minionofmidas]

We can't count your vote for this election.

But I would support a change along the lines of "you can edit your vote until an hour after you cast it or three hours before polls close, whichever is earlier" (exact times open to debate) to be in place for the next elections.

[minionofmidas]

I have quite different figures...

[minionofmidas]

I have quite different figures...

Really?  I was using Tweed's numbers that are up and adding the three more votes that came in since which all flowed to Afleitch.  What do you have?

Check like-a-Fishhook News.
Of course, I may be the one who can't count... but the internal inconsequences for us minor candidates in Tweed's figures make me think otherwise. It's also quite possible that neither of us can count, though.