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Yep, STV: Single Transferable Vote. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8XOZJkozfI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8XOZJkozfI Closer to home, it's also used by
by rectang 8y ago
Yep, STV: Single Transferable Vote.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8XOZJkozfI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8XOZJkozfI
Closer to home, it's also used by the Apache Software Foundation for the annual election of the Board of Directors.
When the election is only for a single position, this is exactly equivalent to "instant runoff".
- stephen_g 8y agoYeah, that video explains our Senate voting process almost exactly - each state gets a number of Senators, and you vote preferentially either at the party level (about 15 - 30 choices and you can preference up to six), in which case the party decides which candidate gets the first votes, or you can preference every candidate in the whole state (can be over one hundred - the voting paper is comically large[1,2]!) For the House of Representatives, each electorate is much smaller and parties only have one candidate each, so you only have five or six choices, and you preference all of them. 1. https://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/z/r/7/i/p/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gmpkck.png/1455006731044.jpg https://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/z/r/7/i/p/image.re... 2. http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7296/9569414534_b3ee06fd84.jpg http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7296/9569414534_b3ee06fd84.jp...