Can't find where on Facebook I set a criterion for the ratio between exhausted votes and the last live candidates which would indicate a fatal problem, but the results in NSW clearly exceed any reasonable threshold. At the last meaningful step of the count, number 1054, the 13th live candidate (Hall) was eliminated with the counts at: Quota: 345,554 Williams: 345,279 Burston: 335,786 Leyonhhjelm: 274,850 Hall: 167,480 Exhausted: 326,849 Disingenuously, the AEC then distributed Hall's preferences, which appeared to get the 10th and 11th over quota while many more notionally exhausted leaving the anarchist well below quota but still elected. |