Results of Matrix's Group Vote (feddit.uk)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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5 (55%) of the 9 votes have decided in favour of chat consolidation onto an unencrypted group chat. Thus the first round has succeeded in determining a winner after reaching past the 51% threshold.

The old link will be replaced by the new one and lastly the group is now hosted on tchncs.de for the further decentralization of the matrix protocol.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Hey, small half-correction on your previous post. The method you were using for this is called Instant Runoff Voting. In Britain they usually call it the "alternative vote". Terms like "preferential voting" and "ranked choice voting" are also used, though personally I'm not a fan of these because they can theoretically describe a wide range of systems, even if in practice they usually mean IRV.

Single Transferable Vote is the system used when electing multiple winners. For example, in Australia we use STV to elect our Senate. Each state elects 6 Senators every 3 years, using STV. It's a somewhat-proportional system, and gets more proportional the larger number of winners there are. IRV, by contrast, is a single-winner system, suitable for outcomes where there can only be one winner (presidential races, for example, but also this kind of "choose a path to take" non-political vote).

Technically, it's true that STV where n=1 is basically identical to IRV, so it's not necessarily wrong per se. It is highly unconventional, however, to say STV for a single-winner situation.

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