Voting rules & NotA significance

[Olévié Kouami]

Hahahaha.
So all this fight is for NOTA ?
I'm so sorry.
LoL
Le 1 sept. 2016 16:20, "Stephanie Perrin" <stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca>
a écrit :

> Yes thanks for explaining this clearly,  I really did not understand this
> at the time I wrote that.  I do find that a weird construction, in a ranked
> vote.  I had thought even if NOTA came first, as he/she would if everyone
> voted for him/her, that then the next two candidates would fall in line.
> NOTA would of course get the two year term....:-)
>
> Stephanie
>
> On 2016-09-01 2:57, Tapani Tarvainen wrote:
>
> Picking up loose threads:
>
> On Aug 25 15:06, Stephanie Perrin (stephanie.perrin at MAIL.UTORONTO.CA) wrote:
>
>
> Folks I am no math wizard, but it does seem to me that Avri's
> explanation is correct (and the later, more haiku version even
> better).  If every single voter voted for one or two Council
> candidates and NOTA, then NOTA would win, and the candidate with the
> fewest votes would drop off.  Seems obvious to me.   The candidate
> with the fewest votes always drops off.
>
>
> This may seem obvious to you, but it is *not* how it now works
> (nor did Avri explain it that way - her explanation was correct
> apart from the borderline case that someone gets exactly same
> number of votes as NOTA).
>
> Instead, *ALL* candidates who receive less votes than NOTA will
> fail to be elected.
>
> So if NOTA gets most votes, no candidates will be elected.
>
> Not that this is likely to matter in practice, as NOTA has
> never received a significant number of votes, but it's better
> to be precise just in case.
>
>
>
>
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