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Idiosyncratic properties of Australian STV election counting

Computers and Society 2024-09-19 v1

Abstract

Single Transferable Vote (STV) counting, used in several jurisdictions in Australia, is a system for choosing multiple election winners given voters' preferences over candidates. There are a variety of different versions of STV legislated and/or applied across Australia. This paper shows some of the unintuitive properties of some of these systems.

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@article{arxiv.2409.11627,
  title  = {Idiosyncratic properties of Australian STV election counting},
  author = {Andrew Conway and Michelle Blom and Alexander Ek and Peter J. Stuckey and Vanessa J. Teague and Damjan Vukcevic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.11627},
  year   = {2024}
}