To the Editor:
I appreciate your running my letter making sense of the statistics and I know how hard it is to transcribe from my handwritten letters. Several folks have wondered why, in the election statistics, Willie Bailey was omitted. Either I was sloppy or there was an editorial transcription error or doing data distribution in a letter to the editor is akin to fitting a round peg into a square hole, but Willie Bailey’s totals seem to be paired with Tim Lovain.
Regardless of whose errata, the correct totals for these two should be:
Total Percent
Tim Lovain 14,597 51
Willie Bailey 13,514 47
Hopefully by next election, either I’ll have figured out how to use e-mail on my personal computer or elections officials will have figured out how to compute meaningful percentages for multi-position contests.
Dino Drudi
Alexandria