I'm actually serious. Most people start showing early signs of prodromal Alzheimer's in your 60s and there's treatments coming to market if you can catch it early enough. I do this for a living my guy.

This isn't about you being dumb about vote totals, I think anyone in their 60s should be getting screened.

This post was edited by Sioux on Nov 9 2022 11:49pm

Because showing total votes cast for a person and total votes cast out of total registered voters gives you identical information.

majority (of people who got off their asses and voted) rules

hopefully this is a simple enough summary for you ty

No it doesn't...



1000 registered voters


38% voted for Fred = 380 voters, voted for Fred
28% voted for Irma = 280 voters, voted for Irma

Later on, 100 more registered voters voted for Fred, so Fred has 48% of the voters.
200 more registered voters, vote for Irma, so Irma now also has 48% of the voters.

But Fred still has 48% of the registered voters. Fred's percentage doesn't go down because later on Irma got twice as many registered voters to vote for her as Fred did.


So if only 96% of the registered voters, turned out to vote, then 48% is a tie.


The point is... that once a candidate gets, say, 29.7% of the registered voters... his percent can never go... "down".
Which to me... makes more sense.

This post was edited by Ghot on Nov 10 2022 12:01am

How does this tell you different information than:

Fred has 380 votes
Irma has 280

More counting,

Fred has 480 votes
Irma has 480 votes

Because using registered voters for the percentage calculations... this can't happen...




This post was edited by Ghot on Nov 10 2022 12:08am

Right but if you look at vote totals, those are still counting upwards with time. I don't understand what your issue is, they're showing you in the information you want, and then also showing the % of the total votes counted each candidate is getting which people actually care about.

I don't know how to explain it any better.
In my book... when you get more of the votes (that are available), your percentage should go UP.

Right. The votes tallied are literally going up.

That's what cracks me up. You can understand the the tallied votes should go UP, but not that the percentage should go UP as well.