I learned that ranked voting is the reason why they stored counts using floating point (fractional) values.
It’s a frigging terrible excuse (more than likely, it’s a lie). Anything dealing with fractional votes could be done using a post processor. The dolt that decided to do it in realtime should be jailed and never be allowed to touch a computer again.
This is so true and it had to have been done for only one reason -- so they could live-query ranked-voting results & report those results to their payors and await the nod to gin the necessary votes.
"Sources say Collins might survive the ranked voting afforded to ur-Canucks."