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Change calculation of voting percentages in polls with multiple choice options


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I created a poll with multiple choice options:  http://www.surlyhorns.com/board/index.php?/topic/1127-gun-control-proposals-poll/

The forum is calculating voting percentages for each choice with the total number of votes cast as the denominator and it's a meaningless number.  If it's possible to adjust the calculation to use the number of members that have voted as the denominator, that would be great.

Note that this change only makes sense for multiple choice polls.  The current formula works fine for single choice polls.

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1 hour ago, bernorange said:

I created a poll with multiple choice options:  http://www.surlyhorns.com/board/index.php?/topic/1127-gun-control-proposals-poll/

The forum is calculating voting percentages for each choice with the total number of votes cast as the denominator and it's a meaningless number.  If it's possible to adjust the calculation to use the number of members that have voted as the denominator, that would be great.

Note that this change only makes sense for multiple choice polls.  The current formula works fine for single choice polls.

why would these not be the same number

can you cast more than one vote in multiple choice polls?

edit: ok I just looked at your poll

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