I took a peak over at the results of the dKos 8 senate poll and I noticed something odd. According to the site, there have only been 10 votes cast and stranger still, while Farmer is still second she only beats Mongiardo (who does terribly against everyone else) in 5 ballots out the hundreds cast. Clearly something wierd is going on, but it appears that all the votes are preserved under the "details" link so proper results should be possible to reconsturct...
dKos 8 Senate Candidates
Election supervisor: Markos Moulitsas (kos@dailykos.com)
Announced end of election: June 10, 11 p.m. PST
Election has not yet ended.
This is an open election.
Actual votes cast: 10
Number of winning choices: 2
Election description
Rank the candidates by order of preference. The top two candidates, chosen by the Condorcet method, will become part of the "dKos 8" list.
Condorcet winner
The Condorcet winner of this election is Tony Knowles (AK)
Ranking of the choices
Winning choices are shown in bold.
Tony Knowles (AK)
Nancy Farmer (MO)
Barack Obama (IL)
Eric Fingerhut (OH)
Daniel Mongiardo (KY)
Burt Cohen (NH)
Preference matrix
The following matrix shows the number of ballots on which choices beat other choices, considered pairwise.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
- Tony Knowles (AK) - 942 999 1047 1187 1248
- Nancy Farmer (MO) 588 - 895 929 5 1185
- Barack Obama (IL) 578 681 - 817 935 1000
- Eric Fingerhut (OH) 514 614 768 - 975 1076
- Daniel Mongiardo (KY) 326 381 584 519 - 822
- Burt Cohen (NH) 263 314 510 406 617 -
Update [2004-6-10 18:43:53 by samiam]: It appears that the website has stopped accepting new votes. In the "details" section no new votes have appeared for half an hour or more, the last was number 1749. At least one person seems to have been prevented from voting...