[Osmf-talk] 2015 AGM results

[Christoph Hormann]

On Thursday 17 December 2015, Roland Olbricht wrote:
>
> An import detail of this (and the previous) election is that most
> ballots were ineffective beyond the first position:
> - for everybody who had "Ilya Zverev" or "Peter Barth" on the first
> position, his or her vote is exhausted with the success of these two
> candidates in the first round
> - for everybody who had "Martijn van Exel" in the first position, his
> or her vote is also exhausted, everything else on the ballot is
> weighted with only less than 0.1 (in fact 1/12)

Note however that the fact that both Ilya and Peter had no surplus votes 
and Martijn had only very few is somewhat unusual.  In the previous 
election the situation was quite different.

The STV principle essentially means if your #1 candidate was 'barely' 
elected your lower priorities have no effect since all your voting 
power went into electing this candidate.

Or in other words: you can not split your vote, you can just rank your 
priorities and your lower priorities only find consideration if your 
higher priorities did not have an effect already because of the 
circumstances.

-- 
Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/