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Round 1 Legend   Loulou's Views   133.0  (16.8%)    Postcards from the Mothership   129.0  (16.3%)    Crib Chronicles   100.0  (12.7%)    Fawnahareo's Place   99.0  (12.5%)    Strocel.com   89.0  (11.3%)    Frog and Toad are Still Friends   70.0  (8.9%)    TurtleHead   63.0  (8.0%)    Adventures of the Reluctant Housewife   62.0  (7.8%)    Bored Mommy   33.0  (4.2%)    sweet | salty   12.0  (1.5%)  Defeated

In the first round, the first choices on each ballot are tallied.
No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory (25%), so the last-place candidate (sweet | salty) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

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Round 2 Legend   Loulou's Views   134.0  (17.0%)    Postcards from the Mothership   130.0  (16.5%)    Crib Chronicles   103.0  (13.1%)    Fawnahareo's Place   99.0  (12.6%)    Strocel.com   90.0  (11.4%)    Frog and Toad are Still Friends   73.0  (9.3%)    TurtleHead   63.0  (8.0%)    Adventures of the Reluctant Housewife   62.0  (7.9%)    Bored Mommy   34.0  (4.3%)  Defeated None of these   2.0  (0.3%)

No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory (25%), so the last-place candidate (Bored Mommy) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

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Round 3 Legend   Loulou's Views   144.0  (18.6%)    Postcards from the Mothership   134.0  (17.3%)    Crib Chronicles   103.0  (13.3%)    Fawnahareo's Place   100.0  (12.9%)    Strocel.com   90.0  (11.6%)    Frog and Toad are Still Friends   75.0  (9.7%)    TurtleHead   63.0  (8.2%)  Defeated Adventures of the Reluctant Housewife   64.0  (8.3%)    None of these   17.0  (2.2%)

No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory (25%), so the last-place candidate (TurtleHead) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

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Round 4 Legend   Loulou's Views   144.0  (19.9%)    Postcards from the Mothership   142.0  (19.7%)    Crib Chronicles   103.0  (14.3%)    Fawnahareo's Place   100.0  (13.9%)    Strocel.com   91.0  (12.6%)    Frog and Toad are Still Friends   78.0  (10.8%)    Adventures of the Reluctant Housewife   64.0  (8.9%)  Defeated None of these   68.0  (9.4%)

No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory (25%), so the last-place candidate (Adventures of the Reluctant Housewife) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

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Round 5 Legend   Loulou's Views   148.0  (22.2%)    Postcards from the Mothership   143.0  (21.5%)    Crib Chronicles   103.0  (15.5%)    Fawnahareo's Place   102.0  (15.3%)    Strocel.com   91.0  (13.7%)    Frog and Toad are Still Friends   79.0  (11.9%)  Defeated None of these   124.0  (18.6%)

No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory (25%), so the last-place candidate (Frog and Toad are Still Friends) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

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Round 6 Legend   Loulou's Views   150.0  (24.0%)    Postcards from the Mothership   153.0  (24.5%)    Crib Chronicles   127.0  (20.3%)    Fawnahareo's Place   103.0  (16.5%)    Strocel.com   92.0  (14.7%)  Defeated None of these   165.0  (26.4%)

No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory (25%), so the last-place candidate (Strocel.com) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

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Round 7 Legend   Loulou's Views   152.0  (28.0%)    Postcards from the Mothership   157.0  (29.0%)  Elected Crib Chronicles   129.0  (23.8%)    Fawnahareo's Place   104.0  (19.2%)    None of these   248.0  (45.8%)

Postcards from the Mothership has enough votes to guarantee victory (25%) 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 8 Legend   Loulou's Views   152.0  (28.0%)    Postcards from the Mothership   135.5  (25.0%)    Crib Chronicles   144.4  (26.6%)    Fawnahareo's Place   110.1  (20.3%)  Defeated None of these   248.0  (45.8%)

No candidate has the number of votes needed to guarantee victory (25%), so the last-place candidate (Fawnahareo's Place) is eliminated. Ballots for that candidate are counted toward their next highest ranking.

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Round 9 Legend   Loulou's Views   153.0  (33.9%)  Equalized Postcards from the Mothership   151.6  (33.6%)    Crib Chronicles   146.4  (32.5%)    None of these   339.0  (75.2%)

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 10 Legend   Loulou's Views   150.3  (33.3%)    Postcards from the Mothership   151.6  (33.6%)  Equalized Crib Chronicles   149.0  (33.0%)    None of these   339.0  (75.2%)

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 11 Legend   Loulou's Views   150.3  (33.3%)  Elected Postcards from the Mothership   150.3  (33.3%)  Elected Crib Chronicles   150.3  (33.3%)  Elected None of these   339.0  (75.2%)

At this point, the number of remaining candidates equals the number of remaining seats, so the remaining candidates are declared elected.
In the end, 57.1% of all cast ballots counted toward a winner. This compares to 45.8% 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.

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  77.7%    2nd  13.9%    3rd  4.7%    4th  1.0%    5th  0.5%    7th  0.8%    8th  0.6%    9th  0.4%    10th  0.3%