Answer by Chappo Hasn't Forgotten Monica for How are moderator election votes...
This is exactly the same voting system used in elections for the Upper House in New South Wales (an Australian State). Technically, it's called Optional Proportional Preferential voting. A similar...
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I had to write my own explanation in order to figure out how STV works in practice. This answer goes into more detail about how the system works for multiple position elections such as most Stack...
View ArticleAnswer by Wrzlprmft for How are moderator election votes counted, in plain...
Once more, with robotsAssume each voter gets a billion tiny robots. Their votes essentially are a preference list programmed into that robot.Further assume, each candidate has a big robot-accessible,...
View ArticleAnswer by Pops for How are moderator election votes counted, in plain English?
Here's the so-über-short-it's-almost-misleading version:Meek STV does calculations in rounds (or "iteratively," for you programmer types). In the first round, all votes count for the candidate marked...
View ArticleAnswer by yhw42 for How are moderator election votes counted, in plain English?
Meek's method of STV is an iterative process that approaches the will of the people asymptotically.TL;DR Your vote, valued at 1.00 vote, is applied to your candidates in the order you rank them. Each...
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The election pages' sidebars state that Stack Exchange elections use the Meek STV vote-counting method:After m days, the final voting results will be freely downloadable from this page forever, and we...
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