DemoChoice Web Poll: Nov 2024 Members, Board of Education - Albany (Electing 2)
2 candidates will be elected with 3,188 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  1,270.0  (39.8%) 
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD :DDDDDDDD
Dayna Inkeles  863.0  (27.1%) 
BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB ______ :
Jolene Gazmen  737.0  (23.1%) 
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ___________ :
Brian L. Doss  301.0  (9.4%) 
CCCCCCCCCCC _________________________ :
Write-In  17.0  (0.5%) 
E ___________________________________ :
   
Results   Redistributed Votes (to these colors)
Veronica Davidson Elected
AA BBB CC

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 3,188 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  1,062.7  (33.3%) 
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD :
Dayna Inkeles  955.0  (30.0%) 
BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB ___ :
Jolene Gazmen  806.2  (25.3%) 
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ________ :
Brian L. Doss  347.1  (10.9%) 
CCCCCCCCCCCC ________________________ :
Write-In  17.0  (0.5%) 
E ___________________________________ :
   
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 3,188 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  1,062.7  (33.4%) 
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD :
Dayna Inkeles  956.0  (30.1%) 
BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB ____ :
Jolene Gazmen  813.2  (25.6%) 
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA _________ :
Brian L. Doss  349.1  (11.0%) 
CCCCCCCCCCCC _________________________ :
None of these  7.0   
F ____________________________________
   
Results   Redistributed Votes (to these colors)
Brian L. Doss Defeated
AAA BBBBBBB D FF

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.

next round Next Round














 
 
DemoChoice Web Poll: Nov 2024 Members, Board of Education - Albany (Electing 2)
2 candidates will be elected with 3,188 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  1,088.9  (34.7%) 
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD :
Dayna Inkeles  1,148.7  (36.6%) 
BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB :BB
Jolene Gazmen  899.5  (28.7%) 
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ______ :
None of these  51.0   
FF ___________________________________
   
Results   Redistributed Votes (to these colors)
Jolene Gazmen Defeated
BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB DDDDDDDDDDDD 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 3,188 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  1,420.3  (47.1%) 
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD :DDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Dayna Inkeles  1,593.7  (52.9%) 
BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB :BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB
None of these  174.0   
FFFFFF _____________________________
   
Results   Redistributed Votes (to these colors)
Dayna Inkeles Elected
DDD

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 3,188 ballots cast.

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


Round 6    
---------------------------------------------------- 50%
Veronica Davidson  1,507.0  (50.0%) 
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD :
Dayna Inkeles  1,507.0  (50.0%) 
BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB :
None of these  174.0   
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, 94.5% of all cast ballots counted toward a winner. This compares to 66.9% 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 3,188 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 23.6% 
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3rd 7.7% 
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