[little jeremiah]

I’ve read about weighted voting before and I can never ever understand it at all. Is there a kindergartner version to make it understandable?

[freeangel]

Lol. Our woman’s group met last night and their was a demonstration. Yeaaa! My DH won! The problem is that by the end of the “run off” there are some who don’t get to vote since their choice was eliminated from the get go

[Steve Van Doorn]

Here is the interface for election runner voting machines on their Weighted voting feature
Notice they have it on line as though it's no big deal?
https://electionrunner.com/support/kb/voters/how-to-use-weighted-voting/

[HippyLoggerBiker]

Re: Weighted voting

IT HAS NO PLACE IN OUR ELECTIONS

Some examples of legitimate uses:

In a corporate setting, a stockholder with more shares is able to make more of an impact on company policy and decision-making than a stockholder with fewer shares.

On a condo or HOA board, someone who owns multiple residences in the building totaling up to 10,000 square feet is able to influence decisions more significantly than the person with one 1,000 square feet apartment.

At a charitable organization, the person who made a one-time $100 donation is given less influence than the person who routinely gives $500,000 each year.

[Larry - Moe and Curly]

“I’ve read about weighted voting before and I can never ever understand it at all. Is there a kindergartner version to make it understandable?”

1 Vote does not equal 1.

1 Vote = 4/4 (as an example).

Once you divide 1 vote into a fraction, you can steer any portion of that fraction you want to whatever candidate you want. Example:
1/4 vote = Republican candidate
3/4 vote = Democrat candidate.

For every 4 votes cast, the Republican candidate gets 1 vote. The Democrat candidate get 3 votes.

Scale this up to hundreds, thousands or millions of votes and no matter how many people vote for one candidate or the other, the winner will have 3 times more votes than the loser (in this example).

The key to the voting machine is that 1) you can change the fraction to whatever spread you want, and 2) it always rounds up (or down) to show ONLY whole numbers - 100.75 votes shows up as 101 votes or 100 votes, depending on how it’s programmed.

If I remember correctly, this was first discovered in Michigan in the early days after the election.

[BlueMondaySkipper]

“ I’ve read about weighted voting before and I can never ever understand it at all. Is there a kindergartner version to make it understandable?”

There are two things at play here. Weighted voting has been explained, but the other is fractional voting. As I understand it, that’s where votes for Trump would count as .8 votes while votes for Biden would count as 1.2 votes. This builds in a cushion for Biden while cheating Trump. Weighted voting does basically the same thing. It makes some votes more important than others,

The problem, again as I understand it, is that they didn’t give Biden enough of a cushion and were forced to figure out a new ratio on the fly, then apply it to the code. That happened during the pause in several states.

I actually would support weighted voting if it was done properly and honestly. Say everybody starts with a weight of 10. If you cost the taxpayers money in any way (net outlay), you drop to 1. If you are a net contributor, your weight goes up by 10 for every $5000 you contribute, to a maximum weight of say 100. The numbers are negotiable or course, but you get the idea.

IIRC, back in the day, only property owners got to vote. More skin in the game should mean more say in the direction of the country, within limits of course.