{"article":{"id":102777,"heading":"KPFK Ballot Counting","author":"anonymous","created":"2004-02-12 00:34:00","modified":"2005-08-15 02:50:05","last_modified":"Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:50:05","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>KPFK used the sophisticated \"instant runoff voting\" system to count the votes.  This requires a lot of volunteer labor to enter data data entry hand-marked ballots.  Election geeks consider IRV the state-of-the-art in voting, because it prevents votes from being \"wasted\" on marginally popular candidates.  People can vote their desires.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","summary":"Photos of the KPFK voting tally operations.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2004\/02\/kfpkelection1.jpg","filesize":"13.4 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2004\/02\/102777.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2004\/02\/kfpkelection1.jpg","small":"\/uploads\/2004\/02\/kfpkelection1.jpgthumb.jpg"}},"attachments":[{"id":102778,"heading":"kpfk elections","article":"She entered the first 200 ballots.","author":"anonymous","parent_id":102777,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2004-02-12 00:34:00","modified":"2005-08-15 02:50:05","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/02\/kfpkelection2.jpg","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/02\/kfpkelection2.jpg"}},{"id":102779,"heading":"kpfk elections","article":"","author":"anonymous","parent_id":102777,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2004-02-12 00:34:00","modified":"2005-08-15 02:50:05","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/02\/kfpkelection3.jpg","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/02\/kfpkelection3.jpg"}},{"id":102780,"heading":"kpfk elections candidates","article":"","author":"anonymous","parent_id":102777,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2004-02-12 00:34:00","modified":"2005-08-15 02:50:05","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/02\/kfpkelection4.jpg","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/02\/kfpkelection4.jpg"}},{"id":102781,"heading":"kpfk elections","article":"","author":"anonymous","parent_id":102777,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2004-02-12 00:34:00","modified":"2005-08-15 02:50:05","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/02\/kfpkelection5.jpg","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/02\/kfpkelection5.jpg"}}],"comments":[]}