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...Council Transfer SheetNO. TO BE ELECTED Quota 2638 1st Count 2d Count W.Sullivan Surplus 3rd Count D Sullivan Surplus 4th Count McGurk Ruma-Jones 5th Count Hunt 6th Count Okun 7th Count LaTrem-ouille 8th Count Agee 9th Count CaragianesAgee 212 2 214 0 214 2 216 15 15 231 28 259 7 266Bentubo 271 5 276 0 276 3 279 1 280 1 281 3 284 35 319 11 330Caragianes 289 5 294 1 295 1 296 1 298 3 301 1 302 5 307Clinton...
...votes are what count. But if a candidates does well enough (or badly enough), his votes are "transferred" to the candidate marked number two (see page for a more detailed explantions). If either Sullivan "makes quota" (gets ten percent of the total vote) in the first count, their surplus will be distributed to the next candidates. There is only one maxim to remember here: CCA votes are much more likely to transfer to other CCA candidates. Therefore, if David Sullivan and Walter Sullivan each went a few hundred over the quota, when their extra ballots were redistributed, David's would...
...complicated. Let's assume that this year, Walter Sullivan gets 200 more votes than the quota. A random sample of 200 of his supporting ballots are then extracted from his pile of ballots, and sorted according to the number two vote on each one. Any of the surplus ballots that are not marked with a second choice are discarded...
After all of the surplus votes from the candidates who reach quota are transferred to the second choice candidates, the election commissioners begin to work from the bottom up. The weakest candidates are declared official losers, and their supporting ballots are redistributed according to the second choice on each of these ballots...
...chief of the national guard showed me a collection of about 7,000 old weapons straight out of the cavern of Ali Baba. He wanted Browning light machine guns, which I managed to get out of Canadian surplus stocks, and we clinched the deal." The Panamanian antiques were sold to U.S. gun collectors, and Cummings was launched as an international gun barterer. He recycled 26 Vampire jets from Sweden to the Dominican Republic, swapped field equipment for Guatemalan arms, sold 80,000 machine guns to Finland and got a cache of old collectibles in return...