{"id":27845,"date":"2020-12-29T13:09:38","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T13:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=27845"},"modified":"2020-12-29T13:09:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T13:09:38","slug":"howtobuildatent-how-do-you-define-tally-votes-thats-the-problem-it-has-to-be-thresholded-its-not-as-simple-as-tally-votes-when-ballots-are-filled-in-by-hand-counting-them-becomes-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=27845","title":{"rendered":"@HowToBuildATent How do you define &#8220;tally votes&#8221;? That&#8217;s the problem: it *has* to be thresholded It&#8217;s not as simple as &#8220;tally votes&#8221;: when ballots are filled-in by hand, counting them becomes a judgement call 100% of the time Remember hanging chads in Florida 20 years ago?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">How do you define &quot;tally votes&quot;?<\/p>\n<p>That&#39;s the problem: it *has* to be thresholded<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s not as simple as &quot;tally votes&quot;: when ballots are filled-in by hand, counting them becomes a judgement call 100% of the time<\/p>\n<p>Remember hanging chads in Florida 20 years ago?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Warren Myers ?? (@warrenmyers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers\/status\/1343906172600987648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\nfrom Twitter https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers<\/p>\n<p>December 29, 2020 at 08:06AM<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you define &quot;tally votes&quot;? That&#39;s the problem: it *has* to be thresholded It&#39;s not as simple as &quot;tally votes&quot;: when ballots are filled-in by hand, counting them becomes a judgement call 100% of the time Remember hanging chads in Florida 20 years ago? &mdash; Warren Myers ?? (@warrenmyers) December 29, 2020 from Twitter &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=27845\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">@HowToBuildATent How do you define &#8220;tally votes&#8221;? That&#8217;s the problem: it *has* to be thresholded It&#8217;s not as simple as &#8220;tally votes&#8221;: when ballots are filled-in by hand, counting them becomes a judgement call 100% of the time Remember hanging chads in Florida 20 years ago?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[792],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-27845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27846,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27845\/revisions\/27846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27845"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=27845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}