RANK VOTING PROCESS

You can find a general description of how ranked choice voting results are calculated here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote.  For the #WhatsMyName voting, 961 ballots were submitted via the survey.  One ballot was blank, resulting in 960 ballots that could be used.   With 960 ballots and 6 choices, a name needed 138 votes to be chosen in the first round (this is just greater than 1/7th of the ballots).  In the first round of tabulation, Camden High School and H.E.N.R.Y. both passed this threshold and were chosen.  H.E.N.R.Y had 14 first choice rankings more than the threshold and these were reallocated to the voters' 2nd and 3rd choices.  In the second round, no name reached the quota and the name with the lowest number of rankings was eliminated.  These votes were transferred to the voters’ next preference.  The elimination of the lowest ranked options and reallocation of preferences proceeded for 37 rounds until Victory High School was chosen.  Another four name options were eliminated, and Camden Community High School was chosen in the 42nd round, followed by Minneapolis Northwest High School and Prince High School in the 43rd round.

Technical details: We used the STV package in the R statistical computing environment to calculate results using proportional allocation of surplus votes.