{"id":221,"date":"2020-11-27T17:46:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T17:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dawieboers.com\/?p=221"},"modified":"2020-11-27T17:46:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T17:46:21","slug":"wasted-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawieboers.com\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"Wasted vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<p class=\"\">A wasted vote is one that, had it been cast for the other candidate, the result of the election would have been the same. This will explain how to calculate wasted vote under different voting systems.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"\">First-Past-the-Post<\/h1>\n<p class=\"\">Sample election:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Michelle: 5,000<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">George: 2,900<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Edward: 2,100<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wasted vote is one that, had it been cast for the other candidate, the result of the election would have been the same. This will explain how to calculate wasted vote under different voting systems.&nbsp; First-Past-the-Post Sample election:&nbsp; Michelle: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dawieboers.com\/?p=221\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawieboers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawieboers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawieboers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawieboers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawieboers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dawieboers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224,"href":"https:\/\/dawieboers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawieboers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawieboers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawieboers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}