On 27 July 2025 14:09:50 BST, "Tim Düsterhus" <t...@bastelstu.be> wrote: >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.
That's my understanding too, and I also agree we shouldn't make it more complicated. >> 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. Please don't add abstention to STV votes. If you select fewer options than you can, that is already an abstention. STV is really only used for secondaries (and release managers) anyway, so I would rather see this not get more complicated. cheers Derick
