Hi On 7/24/25 15:42, Larry Garfield wrote:
Just to clarify here, Single Transferable Vote and Ranked Choice Voting are the same thing. I think it's just another Ameircan-vs-British English question. :-)
My understanding is that “Ranked Choice Voting” is a generic term of which “Single Transferable Vote” is a specific implementation. I specifically do not want to allow any other implementations than the one the PHP project is already comfortable with using.
How about this, as a following paragraph: As an STV example, a secondary vote using STV and having 5 "Foo", 4 "Bar", 8 "Baz", and 9 "Abstain" first-choice votes has no majority, so will go to a second round. "Bar" will be eliminated and those votes redistributed to second-choice options. If for example the second round result is 6 "Foo", 9 "Baz", and 11 "Abstain", then Baz will have won as it has a clear majority of non-Abstain votes cast.
That is quite verbose and requires two assumptions to be made, making it hard to follow when not already knowing how STV works. I think it will confuse more than it helps.
Best regards Tim Düsterhus
