Weighted vote counts
Yesterday, we wrote about how Rick Dollinger had won the the Parma and Greece votes for designation in SD-56 and had mentioned that the county’s designation is determined by a weighted average of the various town. MCDC has kindly supplied me with documents explaining how much each town is weighted and how the whole thing is calculated. You can see these here and here. The bottom line is that the designations of Parma, Greece, and Brighton combined weight of about 7.4 thousand out of a total weight of 21.2 thousand. In other words, they count about one third of the total. So there’s a long way to go in the race for designation in SD-56. The current weighted totals are approximately:
Dollinger: 52%
Frankel: 44.5%
Powell: 4%
Excellent information - and post - thanks
Glad to see this is long from over. It will be interesting how the City breaks.
Although you have to admit that Dollinger is a dynamic and incredible speaker. When he speaks, you can envision him on the Senate floor. That’s when you realize that experience does count in a seat that is critical to the future of our state.
[...] Update: You can see the weights assigned to the various parts of the district and how these are calculated in documents provided by MCDC as part of an earlier post here. [...]