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Currently all ALAC votes for leadership and Liaison positions use a Single Transferable Vote (STV) system. When an elector casts their ballot, they rank all candidates in order of preference. The automated voting system computes the votes received considering only the first preference of all electors. If one candidate receives a majority of the votes, that candidate is declared the winner (a threshold other than 50% can also be used). If a winner is not declared, the candidate that received the least number of votes is dropped. All ballots are re-evaluated dropping that candidate and moving the others up to fill the gap. The process is repeated (evaluate the ballots and drop additional bottom candidates if necessary) until a winner is declared.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote
for further details.
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If there are many candidates with no clear winner, for N initial candidates, this could take as many as N-1 rounds. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plurality_voting_system for further details.
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For a concise descption of the STV process you are welcome to place a link to http://www.bigpulse.com/preferentialvoting
In the discussion section you could clarify the advantage of STV with:
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Also, there was a question: What happens if there is a tie at the votation?. And we come with 4 possible options (we consider that would be premature to come with an only solution just at that teleconference):
- Some people say that it should be the ALAC chair with an extra vote.
- Other people say that a new round of election should be made. But from what we have heard, a new election would have basically consequences on the time table.
- Another proposal is to have the five chairs to decide.
The final proposal is that "the president of that ad-hoc committee" is the one who should decide and break the tie (not the ALAC chair).
contributed by investigaciones@densi.com.ar on 2010-01-27 12:37:54 GMT
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