{"id":8761,"date":"2014-10-29T17:06:16","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T21:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=8761"},"modified":"2014-10-29T17:06:16","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T21:06:16","slug":"too-many-ways-to-pick-eight-councillors-says-ward-supporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/too-many-ways-to-pick-eight-councillors-says-ward-supporter\/","title":{"rendered":"Too many ways to pick eight Councillors, says ward supporter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Re: Inside Aurora, October 23, 2014)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nicely said, and a great reminder.<br \/>\nEven more so, once you consider that the combinations (up to 8 of 28) that you have to consider are:<\/p>\n<p>How many ways can I pick the best Eight-Person Councillor Team? 125,318,793,600<br \/>\nSeven? 5,967,561,600<br \/>\nSix? 271,252,800<br \/>\nFive? 11,793,600<br \/>\nFour? 491,400<br \/>\nThree? 19,656<br \/>\nTwo? 756<br \/>\nOne? 28<br \/>\nZero? 1<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of the 2014 vote, the next eight Councillors\u2019 decision not to opt for six wards and use either first-past-the-post or ranked ballots to declare the winner in each ward can best be described as somewhere between self-serving and collusion.<br \/>\nMcRoberts is just McWrong.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nDave Stasila<br \/>\nAurora<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Re: Inside Aurora, October 23, 2014) Nicely said, and a great reminder. Even more so, once you consider that the combinations (up to 8 of 28) that you have to consider are: How many ways can I pick the best Eight-Person Councillor Team? 125,318,793,600 Seven? 5,967,561,600 Six? 271,252,800 Five? 11,793,600 Four? 491,400 Three? 19,656 Two? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}