Hey everyone!
As most of you may know, the election closes in less than 24 hours - which means @heatherleson and I will be tabulating the votes soon!
I spoke with @heatherleson last week and I want to share our plan for tabulating the votes with you all. In particular, we have reached an agreement on what to do if there is a tie between two candidates for the 3rd seat.
A quick recap on the election platform:
The election platform we are using is STAR.vote and it works like this:
- Each voter scores all the candidates on a scale from 0-5. All the scores are added and the two highest scoring candidates advance to an automatic runoff.
- The candidate who was preferred by (scored higher by) more voters wins the first seat.
- The next two highest scoring candidates then runoff, with the candidate preferred by more voters winning the next seat.
- This process continues until all positions are filled.
You can read more about this process here, as well as here (under Bloc STAR voting).
What about a tie?
If there were a tie between two candidates in the automatic runoff, whichever candidate scored the highest in the scoring round becomes the winner. If, however, two candidates tied in the automatic runoff and had the same score in the scoring round, we decided that we will flip a coin to determine who the winner is. The tied candidates will be notified before the coin toss as well.
That’s all for now! I look forward to announcing our new council members later this week 
-Bri