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Round 1 Legend   Judy Higginbotham (SET)   3.0  (18.8%)  Elected Cliff Annable (SET)   2.0  (12.5%)    Bob Bose (SCC)   2.0  (12.5%)    Marvin Hunt (SET)   2.0  (12.5%)    Barbara Steele (SET)   2.0  (12.5%)    Sargy Chima (SET)   1.0  (6.3%)    Stephanie DeRapp (SCC)   1.0  (6.3%)    Tom Gill (SET)   1.0  (6.3%)    Mona Jagga (Independent)   1.0  (6.3%)    Baljinder Mann (Independent)   1.0  (6.3%)

In the first round, the first choices on each ballot are tallied.
Judy Higginbotham (SET) has enough votes to guarantee victory (12.5%) 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 (this is actually done by counting a fraction of ballots cast for the winning candidate).

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Round 2 Legend   Judy Higginbotham (SET)   2.0  (12.5%)    Cliff Annable (SET)   2.0  (12.5%)  Elected Bob Bose (SCC)   2.0  (12.5%)    Marvin Hunt (SET)   2.0  (12.5%)    Barbara Steele (SET)   2.0  (12.5%)    Sargy Chima (SET)   1.0  (6.3%)    Stephanie DeRapp (SCC)   1.0  (6.3%)    Tom Gill (SET)   1.0  (6.3%)    Mona Jagga (Independent)   1.0  (6.3%)    Baljinder Mann (Independent)   1.0  (6.3%)    Linda Hepner (SET)   0.3  (2.1%)    Mary Martin (SET)   0.7  (4.2%)

Cliff Annable (SET) has enough votes to guarantee victory (12.5%) 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 (this is actually done by counting a fraction of ballots cast for the winning candidate).

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Round 3 Legend   Judy Higginbotham (SET)   2.0  (12.5%)    Cliff Annable (SET)   2.0  (12.5%)    Bob Bose (SCC)   2.0  (12.5%)  Elected Marvin Hunt (SET)   2.0  (12.5%)    Barbara Steele (SET)   2.0  (12.5%)    Sargy Chima (SET)   1.0  (6.3%)    Stephanie DeRapp (SCC)   1.0  (6.3%)    Tom Gill (SET)   1.0  (6.3%)    Mona Jagga (Independent)   1.0  (6.3%)    Baljinder Mann (Independent)   1.0  (6.3%)    Linda Hepner (SET)   0.3  (2.1%)    Mary Martin (SET)   0.7  (4.2%)

Bob Bose (SCC) has enough votes to guarantee victory (12.5%) 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 (this is actually done by counting a fraction of ballots cast for the winning candidate).

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Round 4 Legend   Judy Higginbotham (SET)   2.0  (12.5%)    Cliff Annable (SET)   2.0  (12.5%)    Bob Bose (SCC)   2.0  (12.5%)    Marvin Hunt (SET)   2.0  (12.5%)  Elected Barbara Steele (SET)   2.0  (12.5%)    Sargy Chima (SET)   1.0  (6.3%)    Stephanie DeRapp (SCC)   1.0  (6.3%)    Tom Gill (SET)   1.0  (6.3%)    Mona Jagga (Independent)   1.0  (6.3%)    Baljinder Mann (Independent)   1.0  (6.3%)    Linda Hepner (SET)   0.3  (2.1%)    Mary Martin (SET)   0.7  (4.2%)

Marvin Hunt (SET) has enough votes to guarantee victory (12.5%) 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 (this is actually done by counting a fraction of ballots cast for the winning candidate).

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Round 5 Legend   Judy Higginbotham (SET)   2.0  (12.5%)    Cliff Annable (SET)   2.0  (12.5%)    Bob Bose (SCC)   2.0  (12.5%)    Marvin Hunt (SET)   2.0  (12.5%)    Barbara Steele (SET)   2.0  (12.5%)  Elected Sargy Chima (SET)   1.0  (6.3%)    Stephanie DeRapp (SCC)   1.0  (6.3%)    Tom Gill (SET)   1.0  (6.3%)    Mona Jagga (Independent)   1.0  (6.3%)    Baljinder Mann (Independent)   1.0  (6.3%)    Linda Hepner (SET)   0.3  (2.1%)    Mary Martin (SET)   0.7  (4.2%)

Barbara Steele (SET) has enough votes to guarantee victory (12.5%) 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 (this is actually done by counting a fraction of ballots cast for the winning candidate).

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Round 6 Legend   Judy Higginbotham (SET)   2.0  (12.5%)    Cliff Annable (SET)   2.0  (12.5%)    Bob Bose (SCC)   2.0  (12.5%)    Marvin Hunt (SET)   2.0  (12.5%)    Barbara Steele (SET)   2.0  (12.5%)    Sargy Chima (SET)   1.0  (6.3%)    Stephanie DeRapp (SCC)   1.0  (6.3%)    Tom Gill (SET)   1.0  (6.3%)    Mona Jagga (Independent)   1.0  (6.3%)    Baljinder Mann (Independent)   1.0  (6.3%)    Linda Hepner (SET)   0.3  (2.1%)  Defeated Mary Martin (SET)   0.7  (4.2%)

No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory (12.5%), so the last-place candidate (Linda Hepner (SET)) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

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Round 7 Legend   Judy Higginbotham (SET)   2.0  (12.5%)    Cliff Annable (SET)   2.0  (12.5%)    Bob Bose (SCC)   2.0  (12.5%)    Marvin Hunt (SET)   2.0  (12.5%)    Barbara Steele (SET)   2.0  (12.5%)    Sargy Chima (SET)   1.0  (6.3%)    Stephanie DeRapp (SCC)   1.0  (6.3%)    Tom Gill (SET)   1.0  (6.3%)    Mona Jagga (Independent)   1.0  (6.3%)    Baljinder Mann (Independent)   1.0  (6.3%)    Mary Martin (SET)   1.0  (6.3%)  Defeated

No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory (12.5%), so the last-place candidate (Mary Martin (SET)) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

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Round 8 Legend   Judy Higginbotham (SET)   2.0  (12.5%)    Cliff Annable (SET)   2.0  (12.5%)    Bob Bose (SCC)   2.0  (12.5%)    Marvin Hunt (SET)   2.0  (12.5%)    Barbara Steele (SET)   2.0  (12.5%)    Sargy Chima (SET)   1.3  (8.3%)    Stephanie DeRapp (SCC)   1.0  (6.3%)  Defeated Tom Gill (SET)   1.3  (8.3%)    Mona Jagga (Independent)   1.0  (6.3%)    Baljinder Mann (Independent)   1.3  (8.3%)

No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory (12.5%), so the last-place candidate (Stephanie DeRapp (SCC)) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

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Round 9 Legend   Judy Higginbotham (SET)   2.0  (13.3%)    Cliff Annable (SET)   2.0  (13.3%)    Bob Bose (SCC)   2.0  (13.3%)    Marvin Hunt (SET)   2.0  (13.3%)    Barbara Steele (SET)   2.0  (13.3%)    Sargy Chima (SET)   1.3  (8.9%)    Tom Gill (SET)   1.3  (8.9%)    Mona Jagga (Independent)   1.0  (6.7%)  Defeated Baljinder Mann (Independent)   1.3  (8.9%)    None of these   1.0  (6.7%)

No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory (12.5%), so the last-place candidate (Mona Jagga (Independent)) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

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Round 10 Legend   Judy Higginbotham (SET)   2.0  (14.3%)  Elected Cliff Annable (SET)   2.0  (14.3%)  Elected Bob Bose (SCC)   2.0  (14.3%)  Elected Marvin Hunt (SET)   2.0  (14.3%)  Elected Barbara Steele (SET)   2.0  (14.3%)  Elected Sargy Chima (SET)   1.3  (9.5%)  Elected Tom Gill (SET)   1.3  (9.5%)  Elected Baljinder Mann (Independent)   1.3  (9.5%)  Elected None of these   2.0  (14.3%)

At this point, the number of remaining candidates equals the number of remaining seats, so the remaining candidates are declared elected.
In the end, 87.5% of all cast ballots counted toward a winner. This compares to 87.5% 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 8" 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.

Also, view the Ballot Depth info to see how much lower rankings contributed to the tally.

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Rank   Fraction of votes for winners 1st  92.9%    5th  2.4%    6th  4.8%