Fritz Election tracker

[Fritz]

Feel free to criticize or correct me.  I've been working on this all afternoon, and I think its more accurate than SPC's.

Total voters: 65, Quota: 11, last vote: GM3PRP

Round I:

RowanBrandon	16	(FallenMorgan, Hamilton, NiK, Ronnie, Smid, cinyc, dead0man, RowanBrandon, MasterJedi, filliatre, JewishConservative, floridarepub, Libertas, A-Bob, Daniel Adams, officepark)
Fritz	12	(SewerSocialist, Sensei, dc_united, Fritz, BRTD, Bacon King, Boris, Rob,RosettaStoned, jfern, phknrocket1k, jokerman)
Marokai Blue	12	Maxque, Ebowed, Flyers, opebo, Marokai Blue, Eraserhead, Lief, Holmes, XPostFactor99, Antonio V, anvikshiki, Iosif)
Franzl	8	(HappyWarrior, Frodo, realisticidealist, sbane, Sam Spade, Torie, bullmoose88, GM3PRP)
Afleitch	6	(Hashemite, Moderate, Swedish Cheese, Verily, AndrewCT, Barnes)
SPC	5	(tmthforu94, Mechaman, Giovanni, J.J., Brandon H)
Jas	3	(Xahar, Jas, Sibboleth)
AHDuke99	2	(benconstine, Mint)
Sewer Socialist	1	(Lewis)

 

RowanBrandon, Fritz, and Marokai Blue are elected, and their surplus redistributed.

 

Round II:

 

RowanBrandon	11
Fritz	11
Marokai Blue	11
SPC	10	(+RowanBrandon votes)
Franzl	8.08	(+Opebo)
Afleitch	7.5	(+Fritz votes - RosettaStoned, dc_united, Bacon King, +Marokai votes - Ebowed, Flyers, Opebo)
Jas	3
AHDuke99	2.08	(+Bacon King)
Sewer Socialist	1.08	(+Ebowed)
exhausted	0.24	(RosettaStoned, dc_united, Flyers)

 

Sewer Socialist is eliminated.

 

Round III:

RowanBrandon	11
Fritz	11
Marokai Blue	11
SPC	10
Franzl	8.08
Afleitch	8.04	(+Ebowed)
Jas	3.54	(+Lewis)
AHDuke99	2.08
exhausted	0.24

AHDuke99 is eliminated.

Round IV:

RowanBrandon	11
Fritz	11
Marokai Blue	11
SPC	10.69	(+benconstine)
Franz	8.77	(+Mint)
Afleitch	8.73	(+Bacon King)
Jas	3.54
exhausted	0.24

Jas is eliminated.

Round V:

RowanBrandon	11
Fritz	11
Marokai Blue	11
Afleitch	12.27	(+Jas voters)
SPC	10.69
Franzl	8.77
exhausted	0.24

 

Afleitch is elected and his surplus redistributed.

 
Round VI:

 

RowanBrandon	11
Fritz	11
Marokai Blue	11
Afleitch	11
SPC	10.69
Franzl	9.71	(+most Aflietch voters)
exhausted	0.57

[Fritz]

One pick: Angry Weasel invalidated his vote. (Why he did that, I have no idea, it must have been an innocent mistake, but unfortunately he did.)

Well that changes everything  

[Fritz]

Fixed to factor out Angry Weasel and add GM3PRP.

[Fritz]

Glad to see others making use of my tables and re-doing the math, cause I don't feel like doing it again 

I actually don't know a thing about making tables.  I typed it all up in a document, and it looked pretty, then I pasted it into a post, hit preview and it was all f**'d up.  My rooommate helped me with the tables, took about an hour.

[Fritz]

I've been following this for the past few hours- this really is a tight race between SPC and Franzl for the 5th spot.  It all changes with every new vote.

[Fritz]

While theres a lull in the voting I'll update this.

Total voters: 89, Quota: 15, last vote: px75
Round I:

RowanBrandon	16
Marokai Blue	16
Fritz	15
Franzl	11
Afleitch	11
SPC	8
AHDuke99	5
Jas	4
Sewer Socialist	2
EarlAW	1

RowanBrandon, Marokai Blue and Fritz are elected, and their surplus redistributed. (Afleitch +0.72, Franzl +0.06, Sewer +0.12, SPC +1, exhausted 0.06)

Round II:

RowanBrandon	15
Marokai Blue	15/td]
Fritz	15
Franzl	11.06
Afleitch	11.72
SPC	9
AHDuke99	5
Jas	4
Sewer Socialist	2.12
EarlAW	1

Double elimination of EarlAW and Sewer Socialist. (Jas +3.12)

Round III

RowanBrandon	15
Marokai Blue	15
Fritz	15
Franzl	11.06
Afleitch	11.72
SPC	9
AHDuke99	5
Jas	7.12

AHDuke eliminated. (SPC +4, Franzl +1)

Round IV

RowanBrandon	15
Marokai Blue	15
Fritz	15
Franzl	12.06
Afleitch	11.72
SPC	13
Jas	7.12

Jas eliminated (afleitch +6.12, SPC +1)

Round V

RowanBrandon	15
Marokai Blue	15
Fritz	15
Franzl	12.06
Afleitch	17.84
SPC	14

afleitch elected. There is a surplus of 2.84 which will materially affect the count. (Franzl +2.65, exhausted 0.19)

Round VI

RowanBrandon	15
Marokai Blue	15
Fritz	15
Franzl	14.71
Afleitch	15
SPC	14

Franzl is elected without a quota

[Fritz]

Which round did I make a mistake in?

[Fritz]

I see what I did wrong...when I redistributed Sewer, the 0.12 should have gone to Afleitch instead of Jas.  But that all ends up with Afleitch anyway, so my end result is correct.

[Fritz]

I'd like to ask a question. This is probably not the right topic for it, but since we don't really have a place for this sort of question I'll still try here.

Well, I'm certainly not an expert in voting systems, but this has always interested me, so that I tried to research about that and now I know the basics. But there is something I don't understand about the voting system used for this election.
The Single Transferable Vote is suppposed to be a proportionnal system, selecting the 5 people that represent better the electors. In this case, why the quota fixed to be elected is 1/6 of the total votes insteasd of 1/5 ? If you fix it at 1/6 where there are only 5 senators elected, the representativity of the elected will be just slowly higher to 5/6, whereas we could have a 100% one with an 1/5 of the votes. This clearly hurts proportionnality of the system and can be dangerous.
If there is a reason why things are so, I hope someone could explain it to me, because this issue worries me since sometimes now. I admit that I can be wrong and will accept any sort of explanation. Thanks a lot.

I don't believe Antonio ever got an answer to his question.  Does anyone have an answer to this?