By Dominic Paris
My running club conducted an election to determine the beneficiary of the profits from
our annual run (a purse of about $8,000 to $10,000).
So, it is competitive.
Approximately 150 people were eligible to vote.
86 actually voted.
There were 14 candidates.
Score voting was used on a scale of
Paris concludes based on this election that he'd prefer an 0-5 scale rather than 0-10 because too many of the votes seem "scattered," concentrated either at the top, bottom, or center. (Besides, many other score voting sites like OkCupid, Netflix, Yelp, etc. tend to use a 0-5 scale.)
Here is a table giving the election in compressed form. For each of the 14 contenders, table shows how many voters gave them score of 0,1,...,10, what its average rating was, what its median rating was (unused, but included for general interest), and how many voters gave that contender a score.
Instructions: Please rate as many of these beneficiaries, on a scale of 0-10, with 10 being the most deserving and 0 being not deserving at all. You are NOT ranking the nominees, and multiple nominees can have the same score. Vote for as many or as few as you wish. The nominee with the highest total score will win. In case of a tie, the nominee with the highest average score will win.
contender \ score 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 avg median #responding Bay Area Youth Summit 8 4 1 4 4 8 7 3 9 8 11 5.84 6 67 Out Loud Radio 9 4 8 3 2 13 7 3 7 3 4 4.57 3 63 Family House 8 3 6 0 3 12 3 8 2 7 8 5.33 5 60 Family Builders by Adoption 8 1 3 5 5 8 5 8 12 3 4 5.34 6 62 Gay Straight Alliance 9 1 1 6 6 6 6 5 9 7 12 5.90 6 68 Queer Life Space 7 4 6 7 4 8 7 5 7 4 3 4.71 5 62 Downtown Youth Clinic 4 1 5 2 7 12 5 4 12 7 9 6.06 6 68 Jewish Family & Children Services 10 3 7 4 3 7 2 7 9 1 9 4.97 5 62 Out in the Bay Radio 9 8 4 4 4 12 1 2 4 6 10 4.84 5 64 Dolores Street Community Services 6 1 3 4 4 6 2 7 13 9 12 6.43 8 67 Larkin Street Youth Services 6 3 2 1 2 7 6 4 8 8 23 6.90 8 70 Gay Games Athlete Fund 19 8 10 2 5 8 2 1 3 4 4 3.23 2 66 Rainbow World Fund 8 3 5 4 5 8 6 8 6 6 5 5.14 5 64 Gay Asian Pacific Association Foundation 9 4 5 4 3 10 5 3 7 2 8 4.88 5 60 14 contenders and 86 voters total.
Notes by WDS: It seems plausible that with plurality voting Larkin & Dolores would have split the vote... although actually there are a lot of other opportunities for vote-splitting here so it would have ended up pretty random and unpredictable.