[EM] draws in IRV

[David Catchpole]

Doubtless a by-election.

On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, LAYTON Craig wrote:

> >There is usually random selection in the first or last round (I recall a
> coin toss being used in >one election).  However, there is a little known
> rule of mass elimination in Australia, that >eliminates all candidates
> except the top two in the first round if they poll a certain >percentage of
> the valid vote (I think it is 90 per cent).  This is intended to save
> counting >time, as single winner IRV elections are still cast and counted
> manually (the old fashioned way, >writing numbers in boxes).
>
> Very stupid.  Not only does mass elimination not change the count rule, it
> isn't even the one we use.  It's actually if the total first preference
> votes for all the candidates other than the first and second candidate are
> less than the total of first preference votes for the second candidate, then
> they're all excluded.
>
> Interestingly, according to the Act, if the top two candidates are tied, you
> declare that the election "cannot be decided".  I have no idea what happens
> then.
>
>

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