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  • From: flux <flux AT sourcemage.org>
  • To: SM-Discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] RFC: clarification of lead voting process
  • Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 03:47:31 +0900

Jeremy Blosser (jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org) wrote [10.04.06 03:36]:
> Simple majority is always majority of votes cast. You don't have a
> minority electing someone for all, no matter how many candidates are
> splitting the vote.
>
> Some systems use a runoff process to deal with this, which can either drop
> candiates as it progresses or just keep running until people change votes
> and someone gets a majority (dark horse scenario). We instead allow IRV,
> so you actually vote yes/no/abstain for *each* candidate, ranking them if
> you want, and your votes can transfer from one to the other until someone
> hits a majority.

That makes sense to me. To just clarify one further point, if there are
two candidates who receive greater than 50% by way of IRV, it simply
goes to the one with more votes, unless there is a draw, in which case
it's invalid (and we can call for a new vote, etc. after). Is this
correct?

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Justin "flux_control" Boffemmyer
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