So what I have to do is below and the code I got is below that. I have no idea what I am supposed to be doing. Think my brain has died. I am supposed to be testing the following ballot in it:
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Implement a program that determines the winner in a first-past-the post election. The names of the candidates and their candidate numbers are given in Table 1 below. Your program only needs to work with these four candidates. It does not need to be designed to work with elections in general, just this particular one. You can assume that the voting record only includes the characters 0, 1, 2 and 3. Use the file task03 as your starting point. Complete the function countVotes() so that it determines the winner, making use of the functions getNextVote() and getRemainingVotes(). Your finished program should:
• obtain the total number of votes for each candidate;
• display the total number of votes awarded to each candidate;
• display the name of the winning candidate;
• display the total number of votes cast.

Candidate Candidate number

Andy 0
Barbara 1
Charles 2
Daphne 3

// REPLACEMENT FILE

//

// ***** YOU DO NOT NEED TO MODIFY THIS FUNCTION *****

// A FUNCTION TO EXTRACT ONE OR MORE VOTES FROM THE FRONT OF A VOTING RECORD

// ***** YOU DO NOT NEED TO MODIFY THIS FUNCTION *****

//

function getNextVote(allTheVotes, lengthOfBallot)

{
var aVote = '';
aVote = allTheVotes.substr(0, lengthOfBallot);
return (aVote);
}

//
// ***** YOU DO NOT NEED TO MODIFY THIS FUNCTION *****
// A FUNCTION TO REMOVE ONE OR MORE VOTES FROM THE FRONT OF A VOTING
// RECORD ONCE THEY HAVE BEEN COUNTED BY ANOTHER FUNCTION.
// ***** YOU DO NOT NEED TO MODIFY THIS FUNCTION *****
//
function getRemainingVotes(allTheVotes, lengthOfBallot)
{
allTheVotes = allTheVotes.substr(lengthOfBallot, allTheVotes.length - lengthOfBallot);
return (allTheVotes);
}

//
// THIS PROGRAM TAKES THE CONTENTS OF THE VOTING RECORD AND SENDS
// THEM TO THE TWO FUNCTIONS getNextVote() AND getRemainingVotes()
// FOR PROCESSING AFTER ALL VOTES HAVE BEEN CANCELLED IT DISPLAYS
// THE RESULTS OF THE ELECTION
//
function countVotes ()
{
var someVotes = ''; // THE COMPLETE VOTING RECORD FROM THE MACHINE
var theVote = ''; // A SINGLE VOTE FROM THE VOTING RECORD
//
// GET THE VOTING RECORD FROM THE TEXT BOX IN THE HTML PAGE
//
someVotes = document.votingForm.votingRecord.value;

//
// CALCULATE THE RESULTS OF THE ELECTION HERE
//

//
// PRINT OUT THE RESULTS HERE
//
document.open(); // PREPARE THE HTML PAGE FOR WRITING

document.write('<P>The results of the election are as follows:<\/P>');

document.close(); // CLOSE THE PAGE AFTER WRITING THE RESULTS
}

Any help is very much appreciated.

If this is homework, as I suspect it is (no real-world application would be this poorly designed and useless, nor would it use Javascript), I'm not going to give you the full answer. But I will tell you this:

getNextVote will give you the value (0, 1, 2, 3) of the leftmost number in that string full of garbage you posted here:

01132310331013322132332221330330212003102332032010 13201120030202030221202020232122211330303122021100 3

getRemainingVotes will remove the first vote from the string and spit out all the remaining ones at the time.

So the rough idea that you want is:

get the next vote
assign it to a variable corresponding with whoever was voted for
get the remaining votes
repeat 1-3 until the allVotes string is down to 1 vote (you won't be able to get the remaining votes because your substring will be 0 in length).

Print out the results
Show which candidate won
Count number of votes

That should get you started.

Well I am still confused. But that probably means I am just stupid.

Thanks for the info. (I don't think it is really called homework when you are 26.)