I don’t think that is surprising where only one’s first-place vote among non-eliminated orgs counts. The screenshots below suggest that when Arthropoda is eliminated, about half of its votes go to SWP, with most of the rest going to WAI and RP. From public information, we don’t know where SWP votes would go if it were eliminated, but it’s plausible that many would go to Arthropoda if it were still in the race.
Moreover, at the time of Arthropoda’s elimination, it was behind SWP 46-31, so while there’s evidence of a clear rank ordering preference among the electorate I would not call it overwhelming.
Thanks Jason! I’m guessing a fairly large part of this is name recognition, so maybe there aren’t unwritten takes to extract here.
This also makes me think we can make the UI clearer next year- it’d have been easier to see this effect if I could also click a button to “eliminate one candidate”.
We did have some more fancy schemes where chunks of votes would be visually redistributed, but it would have taken too long.
I don’t think that is surprising where only one’s first-place vote among non-eliminated orgs counts. The screenshots below suggest that when Arthropoda is eliminated, about half of its votes go to SWP, with most of the rest going to WAI and RP. From public information, we don’t know where SWP votes would go if it were eliminated, but it’s plausible that many would go to Arthropoda if it were still in the race.
Moreover, at the time of Arthropoda’s elimination, it was behind SWP 46-31, so while there’s evidence of a clear rank ordering preference among the electorate I would not call it overwhelming.
Thanks Jason! I’m guessing a fairly large part of this is name recognition, so maybe there aren’t unwritten takes to extract here.
This also makes me think we can make the UI clearer next year- it’d have been easier to see this effect if I could also click a button to “eliminate one candidate”.
We did have some more fancy schemes where chunks of votes would be visually redistributed, but it would have taken too long.