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Round 1			25%
Peggy (Margaret) McQuaid	2,155.0	(26.9%)
Jennifer Hansen-Romero	2,076.0	(25.9%)
Preston Jordan	1,864.0	(23.2%)
Aaron Tiedemann	1,491.0	(18.6%)
Jeremiah Garrett-Pinguelo	395.0	(4.9%)
Write-In	38.0	(0.5%)
Results			Redistributed Votes (to these colors)
Peggy (Margaret) McQuaid	Elected

In the first round, the first choices on each ballot are tallied.
Peggy (Margaret) McQuaid 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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Round 2			25%
Peggy (Margaret) McQuaid	2,004.8	(25.0%)
Jennifer Hansen-Romero	2,076.0	(25.9%)
Preston Jordan	1,905.3	(23.8%)
Aaron Tiedemann	1,553.6	(19.4%)
Jeremiah Garrett-Pinguelo	440.3	(5.5%)
Write-In	39.1	(0.5%)
Results			Redistributed Votes (to these colors)
Jennifer Hansen-Romero	Elected

Jennifer Hansen-Romero 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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Round 3			25%
Peggy (Margaret) McQuaid	2,004.8	(25.0%)
Jennifer Hansen-Romero	2,004.8	(25.0%)
Preston Jordan	1,925.4	(24.0%)
Aaron Tiedemann	1,578.7	(19.7%)
Jeremiah Garrett-Pinguelo	466.0	(5.8%)
Write-In	39.3	(0.5%)
Results			Redistributed Votes (to these colors)
Write-In	Defeated

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

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Round 4			25%
Peggy (Margaret) McQuaid	2,006.5	(25.1%)
Jennifer Hansen-Romero	2,005.9	(25.1%)
Preston Jordan	1,941.6	(24.2%)
Aaron Tiedemann	1,584.9	(19.8%)
Jeremiah Garrett-Pinguelo	468.1	(5.8%)
None of these	12.0
Results			Redistributed Votes (to these colors)
Jeremiah Garrett-Pinguelo	Defeated

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

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Round 5			25%
Peggy (Margaret) McQuaid	2,046.6	(25.7%)
Jennifer Hansen-Romero	2,031.7	(25.5%)
Preston Jordan	2,051.2	(25.7%)
Aaron Tiedemann	1,840.5	(23.1%)
None of these	49.0
Results			Redistributed Votes (to these colors)
Aaron Tiedemann	Defeated

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

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Round 6			25%
Peggy (Margaret) McQuaid	2,441.4	(30.9%)
Jennifer Hansen-Romero	2,284.5	(28.9%)
Preston Jordan	3,177.2	(40.2%)
None of these	116.0
Results			Redistributed Votes (to these colors)
Preston Jordan	Elected

Preston Jordan 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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Round 7			25%
Peggy (Margaret) McQuaid	2,720.6	(34.4%)
Jennifer Hansen-Romero	2,548.1	(32.2%)
Preston Jordan	2,634.3	(33.3%)
None of these	116.0
Results			Redistributed Votes (to these colors)
Peggy (Margaret) McQuaid	Elected

Peggy (Margaret) McQuaid 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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Round 8			33.3%
Peggy (Margaret) McQuaid	2,634.3	(33.3%)
Jennifer Hansen-Romero	2,634.3	(33.3%)
Preston Jordan	2,634.3	(33.3%)
None of these	116.0
Results
Jennifer Hansen-Romero	Elected
Peggy (Margaret) McQuaid	Elected
Preston Jordan	Elected

At this point, the number of remaining candidates equals the number of remaining seats, so the remaining candidates are declared elected.
In the end, 98.6% of all cast ballots counted toward a winner. This compares to 76% 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 3" 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.

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Rank	Fraction of votes for winners
1st	76.2%
2nd	14.2%
3rd	6.9%