DemoChoice Web Poll: Nov 2024 Members, Board of Education - Albany (Electing 2)
2 candidates will be elected with 7,155 ballots cast.

Table form | Chart form: First Round | Next Round | Final Round | Ballot Depth | How it works | Main Page


Round 1    
------------------------------------- 33.3%
Veronica Davidson  2,784.0  (38.9%) 
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD :DDDDDD
Dayna Inkeles  1,978.0  (27.6%) 
BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB ______ :
Jolene Gazmen  1,640.0  (22.9%) 
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ____________ :
Brian L. Doss  720.0  (10.1%) 
CCCCCCCCCCC __________________________ :
Write-In  33.0  (0.5%) 
_____________________________________ :
   
Results   Redistributed Votes (to these colors)
Veronica Davidson Elected
AA BBB C

Note: If this doesn't make sense, try reading the How it works page, view the table form, or ask a question.
The dotted line represents the number of votes that guarantees victory (33.3% of counted votes).

In the first round, the first choices on each ballot are tallied.
Veronica Davidson has enough votes to guarantee victory and is declared a winner. To ensure that everyone's vote counts equally, votes that exceed that threshold are counted toward their next highest ranking, if possible. This is actually done by counting a fraction of the ballots most recently counted for the winning candidate.

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DemoChoice Web Poll: Nov 2024 Members, Board of Education - Albany (Electing 2)
2 candidates will be elected with 7,155 ballots cast.

Table form | Chart form: First Round | Next Round | Final Round | Previous Round | Ballot Depth | How it works | Main Page


Round 2    
------------------------------------- 33.3%
Veronica Davidson  2,385.0  (33.3%) 
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD :
Dayna Inkeles  2,155.1  (30.1%) 
BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB ____ :
Jolene Gazmen  1,775.6  (24.8%) 
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA _________ :
Brian L. Doss  805.3  (11.3%) 
CCCCCCCCCCCC _________________________ :
Write-In  34.0  (0.5%) 
_____________________________________ :
   
Results   Redistributed Votes (to these colors)
Write-In Defeated

Note: If this doesn't make sense, try reading the How it works page, view the table form, or ask a question.
The dotted line represents the number of votes that guarantees victory (33.3% of counted votes).

The last-place candidate (Write-In) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

New colors:
F
None of these

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DemoChoice Web Poll: Nov 2024 Members, Board of Education - Albany (Electing 2)
2 candidates will be elected with 7,155 ballots cast.

Table form | Chart form: First Round | Next Round | Final Round | Previous Round | Ballot Depth | How it works | Main Page


Round 3    
------------------------------------- 33.3%
Veronica Davidson  2,385.5  (33.4%) 
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD :
Dayna Inkeles  2,159.4  (30.2%) 
BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB ___ :
Jolene Gazmen  1,788.6  (25.0%) 
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA _________ :
Brian L. Doss  812.5  (11.4%) 
CCCCCCCCCCCCC ________________________ :
None of these  9.0   
_____________________________________
   
Results   Redistributed Votes (to these colors)
Brian L. Doss Defeated
AAA BBBBBBB D F

Note: If this doesn't make sense, try reading the How it works page, view the table form, or ask a question.
The dotted line represents the number of votes that guarantees victory (33.3% of counted votes).

The last-place candidate (Brian L. Doss) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

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DemoChoice Web Poll: Nov 2024 Members, Board of Education - Albany (Electing 2)
2 candidates will be elected with 7,155 ballots cast.

Table form | Chart form: First Round | Next Round | Final Round | Previous Round | Ballot Depth | How it works | Main Page


Round 4    
------------------------------------ 33.3%
Veronica Davidson  2,438.8  (34.6%) 
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD :DD
Dayna Inkeles  2,596.1  (36.8%) 
BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB :BBBB
Jolene Gazmen  2,013.2  (28.6%) 
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA _____ :
None of these  107.0   
FF __________________________________
   
Results   Redistributed Votes (to these colors)
Jolene Gazmen Defeated
BBBBBBBBBBBBBBB DDDDDDDDDDDDD FFFF

Note: If this doesn't make sense, try reading the How it works page, view the table form, or ask a question.
The dotted line represents the number of votes that guarantees victory (33.3% of counted votes).

The last-place candidate (Jolene Gazmen) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

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DemoChoice Web Poll: Nov 2024 Members, Board of Education - Albany (Electing 2)
2 candidates will be elected with 7,155 ballots cast.

Table form | Chart form: First Round | Next Round | Final Round | Previous Round | Ballot Depth | How it works | Main Page


Round 5    
----------------------------------- 33.3%
Veronica Davidson  3,237.0  (47.7%) 
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Dayna Inkeles  3,553.1  (52.3%) 
BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB :BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB
None of these  365.0   
FFFFF ______________________________
   
Results   Redistributed Votes (to these colors)
Dayna Inkeles Elected
DD

Note: If this doesn't make sense, try reading the How it works page, view the table form, or ask a question.
The dotted line represents the number of votes that guarantees victory (33.3% of counted votes).

Dayna Inkeles has enough votes to guarantee victory and is declared a winner. To ensure that everyone's vote counts equally, votes that exceed that threshold are counted toward their next highest ranking, if possible. This is actually done by counting a fraction of the ballots most recently counted for the winning candidate.

next round Next Round














 
  
DemoChoice Web Poll: Nov 2024 Members, Board of Education - Albany (Electing 2)
2 candidates will be elected with 7,155 ballots cast.

Table form | Chart form: First Round | Final Round | Previous Round | Ballot Depth | How it works | Main Page


Round 6    
----------------------------------------------------- 50%
Veronica Davidson  3,395.0  (50.0%) 
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD :
Dayna Inkeles  3,395.0  (50.0%) 
BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB :
None of these  365.0   
FFFFFF _______________________________________________
   
Results  
Dayna InkelesElected 
Veronica DavidsonElected 

Note: If this doesn't make sense, try reading the How it works page, view the table form, or ask a question.
The dotted line represents the number of votes that guarantees victory (50% of counted votes).

At this point, the number of remaining candidates equals the number of remaining seats, so the remaining candidates are declared elected.
In the end, 94.9% of all cast ballots counted toward a winner. This compares to 66.6% if only the first-round votes were used. You should be able to see that the winners have a more equal mandate in the final round than in the first round.

Note that even the "highest first-round votes" method is more democratic than most methods used in US public elections: the "vote for 2" method, which allows the largest block of voters to dominate, and the district method, where choices are restricted to the one or two viable candidates within geographical boundaries drawn by the politicians in office.

The Ballot Depth section shows how much lower rankings contributed to the tally.
















 
 
DemoChoice Web Poll: Nov 2024 Members, Board of Education - Albany (Electing 2)
2 candidates will be elected with 7,155 ballots cast.

Table form | Chart form: First Round | Final Round | Ballot Depth | How it works | Main Page


Ballot Depth: This shows how much the lower rankings on ballots contributed to the winning candidates.

Rank Fraction of votes for winners
1st 66.7% 
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2nd 23.8% 
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3rd 7.9% 
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