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Round 1			25%
Zee Kay	11.0	(64.7%)
Nectaire OlivevilO	4.0	(23.5%)
Dris Rakesh	2.0	(11.8%)
Results			Redistributed Votes (to these colors)
Zee Kay	Elected

In the first round, the first choices on each ballot are tallied.
Zee Kay 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			33.3%
Zee Kay	5.7	(33.3%)
Nectaire OlivevilO	6.1	(36.1%)
Dris Rakesh	5.2	(30.6%)
Results			Redistributed Votes (to these colors)
Nectaire OlivevilO	Equalized

At this point, the number of remaining candidates equals the number of remaining seats, so the remaining candidates are declared elected.

Transfers are made from each winner until they all have an equal share of the votes.

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Round 3			33.3%
Zee Kay	5.7	(33.3%)
Nectaire OlivevilO	5.7	(33.3%)
Dris Rakesh	5.7	(33.3%)
Results
Zee Kay	Elected
Dris Rakesh	Elected
Nectaire OlivevilO	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, 100% of all cast ballots counted toward a winner. This compares to 100% 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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