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On 2023-03-30 05:20, Nazar Nicholas via UA-discuss wrote:<br>
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style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;color:#20124d">Your
reporting on the results of the election is inadequate. It only
shows the total number of votes as 244. It does not say how many
voted for the chair for example. Please give us the breakdown of
the total vote cast, votes for the victor, votes for the loser,
abstaintation votes, spoilt vote etc. <br>
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<p>I agree with this. Part of the credibility of the election
process is the credibility of the counting process. I agree with
should have a breakdown of how many votes for each candidate and
how many ballots were spoiled. We should have the names of the
election monitors, the people who stake their integrity to certify
that the counting process was correct and that the results have
integrity.<br>
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<p>If this was more than a two-candidate contest using single member
plurality voting, I would be advocating that the anonymised ballot
data be released, so that people could confirm the count
themselves. For this simple contest structure, the ballot data
does not tell us more than the breakdown of votes by candidate or
spoiled-ballot status already tells us.</p>
<p>Best regards,<br>
—Jim DeLaHunt<br>
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