Shenanigans! ):

[emo_snal]

   Something kind of horrible happaned over at ljshootout. The final poll had closed late because I was caught in that storm, and when I came back I was under enough heat so I just closed it immediately and since it was a tie we went to a runoff

Comments

[kittenboo]

I would think that the run-off should be run again if the results are different. Because people might have voted differently if they knew the 3rd person could have won.

[emo_snal]

Oh but the runoff was anonymous so they presumably didn't know who was who

[kittenboo]

oh I didn't realize that.

maybe i'm wrong but i can't see a reason why you should have to do the run off again. but i would only include the runoff results if the original vote with the fake votes eliminated was different.

[emo_snal]

yeah if you discard the votes it changes which 2 of the 3 in the runoff were eligible. It was sheer lucky coincidence that all three entered it (being anonymous I had the person no longer eligible in anyway to make it more confusing who is who). But so its a simple case of simply considering the person who now didn't make it to the runoff as noneligible and announcing the winner of the other two.

[amber_n_teal]

Yeah, then I'd go this way...