<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Larry<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 20 Apr 2017, at 7:24 PM, Larry Shaffer <<a href="mailto:larrys@dakotacarto.com" class="">larrys@dakotacarto.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi Tim and PSC,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Is the a reason normal cumulative weighting of the votes was not used instead of the per-level exclusionary approach?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">Attached are the tally results when done in a cumulative manner, which I think is a fairer representation of one's vote and reflection upon each project's overall importance, when compared to the current method. Note the very different results, though the top projects are still fairly similar.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Thanks that makes much better sense - I have updated the spreadsheet summary tab accordingly. As you say the outcome for the top 5 items is the same (though their sequence changes) - I will follow your approach for future grant votes.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Regards</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Tim</div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra">Regards,</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class=""><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class="">Larry Shaffer<br class="">Dakota Cartography<br class="">Black Hills, South Dakota<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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