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Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:00:40 +1000
From: Greg Rose
To: SAGE members
Subject: [SAGE] SAGE election results (Modified by Tony Del Porto)

The election results are in. Congratulations to Andrew Hume,
Chris Palmer, David Parter, Doug Hughes, Geoff Halprin, Pat Wilson,
Stephen Potter, Tom Perrine, Trey Harris.

Many thanks to Matt Okeson-Harlow for running the election.
The detailed output of the pSTV program, provided by Matt, appears
below. Further down, I've done a fairly detailed description of
the counting process.
To all candidates: thanks for your efforts and willingness to run!

regards,
Greg.
__TOC__
== Tabulation ==

;Election: Sage Vote 2005
;Method: Meek STV
;Number of Ballots: 219
;Threshold Name: Droop Dynamic Fractional
13 candidates running for 9 seats.

{| {{prettytable}}
! R || Andr || Chri || Davi || Doug || Gabr || Geof || Lore || Matt || Pat || Stev || Step || Tom || Trey || Exha || Surp || Thre
|--
! 1
| 31.0 || 11.0 || 24.0 || 19.0 || 3.0 || 47.0 || 5.0 || 6.0 || 22.0 || 1.0 || 9.0 || 5.0 || 36.0 || 0.0 || 50.5 || 21.9
|--
! 2
| 25.8 || 14.5 || 29.7 || 22.9 || 4.1 || 24.1 || 7.2 || 7.7 || 28.7 || 2.1 || 12.9 || 10.0 || 28.7 || 0.6 || 28.7 || 21.8
|--
! 3
| 23.5 || 16.9 || 24.4 || 25.1 || 5.6 || 23.8 || 8.8 || 9.1 || 24.6 || 3.0 || 14.7 || 13.6 || 25.1 || 1.0 || 15.6 || 21.8
|--
! 4
| 22.8 || 18.2 || 23.5 || 23.1 || 6.4 || 22.9 || 9.7 || 10.0 || 23.3 || 3.4 || 15.8 || 15.5 || 23.2 || 1.2 || 8.1 || 21.8
|--
! 5
| 22.3 || 18.9 || 22.5 || 22.5 || 6.9 || 22.3 || 10.2 || 10.5 || 22.5 || 3.6 || 16.4 || 16.5 || 22.5 || 1.4 || 4.1 || 21.8
|--
! 6
| 22.0 || 19.3 || 22.1 || 22.1 || 7.1 || 22.0 || 10.5 || 10.7 || 22.1 || 3.7 || 16.7 || 17.0 || 22.1 || 1.4 || 2.0 || 21.8
|--
! 7
| 21.9 || 19.7 || 22.1 || 21.9 || 7.2 || 21.9 || 10.6 || 10.9 || 22.6 || || 18.7 || 18.1 || 21.9 || 1.5 || 1.9 || 21.8
|--
! 8
| 22.8 || 20.4 || 22.1 || 22.5 || || 22.2 || 11.6 || 11.1 || 23.7 || || 19.5 || 19.1 || 22.4 || 1.5 || 5.3 || 21.7
|--
! 9
| 22.1 || 20.9 || 22.3 || 22.2 || || 22.1 || 12.1 || 11.4 || 22.1 || || 20.1 || 19.9 || 22.2 || 1.6 || 2.5 || 21.7
|--
! 10
| 21.9 || 21.2 || 22.0 || 22.0 || || 21.9 || 12.3 || 11.6 || 22.0 || || 20.3 || 20.3 || 21.9 || 1.7 || 1.2 || 21.7
|--
! 11
| 21.8 || 21.4 || 21.8 || 21.8 || || 21.8 || 12.4 || 11.7 || 21.8 || || 20.5 || 20.5 || 21.8 || 1.7 || 0.6 || 21.7
|--
! 12
| 22.4 || 23.4 || 23.0 || 23.3 || || 22.0 || 14.4 || || 22.5 || || 21.4 || 21.6 || 22.8 || 2.3 || 7.6 || 21.7
|--
! 13
| 22.3 || 22.4 || 22.3 || 22.4 || || 22.2 || 15.1 || || 22.4 || || 22.3 || 22.8 || 22.2 || 2.5 || 6.5 || 21.6
|}

{| {{prettytable}}
!Round 1:
| Count of first place rankings. 
Candidate Andrew Hume is '''elected'''. 
Candidate David Parter is '''elected'''. 
Candidate Geoff Halprin is '''elected'''. 
Candidate Pat Wilson is '''elected'''. 
Candidate Trey Harris is '''elected'''. 
|--
! Round 2:
| Transferring surplus votes. 
Candidate Doug Hughes is '''elected'''. 
|--
! Round 3:
| Transferring surplus votes. 
|--
! Round 4:
| Transferring surplus votes. 
|--
! Round 5:
| Transferring surplus votes. 
|--
! Round 6:
| Transferring surplus votes. 
|--
! Round 7:
| Transferring surplus votes. 
'''Eliminating''' candidate Steve Misrack. 
|--
! Round 8:
| Transferring surplus votes. 
'''Eliminating''' candidate Gabriel Krabbe. 
|--
! Round 9:
| Transferring surplus votes. 
|--
! Round 10:
| Transferring surplus votes. 
|--
! Round 11:
| Transferring surplus votes. 
|--
! Round 12:
| Transferring surplus votes. 
'''Eliminating''' candidate Matthew Barr. 
Candidate Chris Palmer is '''elected'''. 
|--
! Round 13:
| Transferring surplus votes. 
Candidate Stephen Potter is '''elected'''. 
Candidate Tom Perrine is '''elected'''. 
|}

'''Winners are Andrew Hume, Chris Palmer, David Parter, Doug Hughes, Geoff Halprin, Pat Wilson, Stephen Potter, Tom Perrine, Trey Harris.'''

== Explanation of tabulation ==

A more detailed explanation of the above results (my apologies if the
long lines get broken... just put them back together and view with a
constant-width font):

First, the basic premise of a "single transferrable vote preferential
system" is that every ballot (that isn't exhausted, see later) goes
towards electing one person. That one person will be the highest ranked
candidate on the ballot who was electable. Sometimes the candidate with
the highest preference on the ballot has more votes than they needed
to get elected, so the leftover fraction of that ballot will flow on to
the next preference. (This fractional flow is the "Meek" variant, and
except in trivial cases you need a computer to do it; in paper elections
they redistribute by taking a random sample of the bits of paper.)

An explanation of the columns: "R" is simply the round number. The
counting happens in a number of rounds as people get eliminated,
elected,
or votes get moved around. There are then 13 columns, one per candidate.
It is purely a coincidence that in this case there are also 13 rounds
needed to settle the election.

"Exha" (exhausted) is the number of ballots that have gone through all
the candidates who were voted for, and still haven't elected anyone; these
arenow out of the running. For example, there was one person who voted for
only one candidate; when that candidate got elected with more votes than
were needed, the leftover fraction of this ballot became exhausted,
becausethere were no more people listed on it to pass the fractional vote on
to.

"Surp" (surplus) is how many (fractional) votes were left over after
candidates who were already elected had all the votes they needed to
be elected. These are the ones that go to their next preference in the
next round.

"Thre" (threshold) is the number of votes needed to elect someone at
this round. (More traditional people call this a "quota".) Initially,
this is the number of ballots divided by the (number of seats plus 1),
but it will gradually reduce as ballots get exhausted because there
are less ballots remaining in the pool.

So, the process starts by first counting all the #1s.

{| {{prettytable}}
|
{| {{prettytable}}
! R || Andr || Chri || Davi || Doug || Gabr || Geof || Lore || Matt || Pat || Stev || Step || Tom || Trey || Exha || Surp || Thre
|---
! 1
|31.0 || 11.0 || 24.0 || 19.0 || 3.0 || 47.0 || 5.0 || 6.0 || 22.0 || 1.0 || 9.0 || 5.0 || 36.0 || 0.0 || 50.5 || 21.9
|}
|--
| <center>'''Round 1: Count of first place rankings.''' Candidate Andrew Hume is elected. Candidate David Parter is elected. Candidate Geoff Halprin is elected. Candidate Pat Wilson is elected. Candidate Trey Harris is elected. </center>
|}

The threshold starts off as 21.9 votes, being 219/(9+1). If you get more
than this many votes, you're elected. Five candidates did. Let's look
at two of them in particular, though. First, Pat Wilson got 22 votes,
just squeaking in to this round. Essentially, anyone who voted 1 for
Pat has pretty much had their vote used up to get her elected. On the
other hand, Geoff Halprin has lots more votes than he needs -- he got
47,
but only needed 21.9. So, each of these votes has some "leftovers". Even
though Geoff is now elected, a fraction (0.534 or so) of each of these
votes have not yet been used. These partial votes will, in the next
round, be shared out among the second preferences of the people who
voted for Geoff (and similarly for the others who have been elected,
even the .0045 leftover from each of Pat's votes).

{| {{prettytable}}
|
{| {{prettytable}}
! R || Andr || Chri || Davi || Doug || Gabr || Geof || Lore || Matt || Pat || Stev || Step || Tom || Trey || Exha || Surp || Thre
|---
! 1
|31.0 || 11.0 || 24.0 || 19.0 || 3.0 || 47.0 || 5.0 || 6.0 || 22.0 || 1.0 || 9.0 || 5.0 || 36.0 || 0.0 || 50.5 || 21.9
|}
|--
| <center>'''Round 2: Transferring surplus votes.''' Candidate Doug Hughes is elected.</center>
|}

All the leftover fractional votes from the 5 elected candidates have
been moved over to their second preferences. The first thing to note
is that the person who voted for only one candidate voted for one of
the elected ones, so when it came time to move that vote over, it became
"exhausted". This has the side effect of slightly lowering the
threshold,
as there are now less votes in play (the new threshold: (219 - .53) /
(9 + 1) = 21.8). The second thing to note is that, not surprisingly,
many
of those second choices went to other people who were already elected --
by way of example, Pat's vote has significantly increased. But Pat (and
the other four) have already been elected, so those fractional votes
need
to move over to other people too. Third, Doug Hughes has now exceeded
the threshold for the first time, so he too is elected, and leftover
fractions of votes for him (whether they voted for him first or second)
now need to be re-distributed.

{| {{prettytable}}!
|
{| {{prettytable}}
! R || Andr || Chri || Davi || Doug || Gabr || Geof || Lore || Matt || Pat || Stev || Step || Tom || Trey || Exha || Surp || Thre
|---
! 3
| 23.5 || 16.9 || 24.4 || 25.1 || 5.6 || 23.8 || 8.8 || 9.1 || 24.6 || 3.0 || 14.7 || 13.6 || 25.1 || 1.0 || 15.6 || 21.8
|}
|--
! Round 3: Transferring surplus votes.
|--
|
{| {{prettytable}}
! R || Andr || Chri || Davi || Doug || Gabr || Geof || Lore || Matt || Pat || Stev || Step || Tom || Trey || Exha || Surp || Thre
|---
! 4
| 22.8 || 18.2 || 23.5 || 23.1 || 6.4 || 22.9 || 9.7 || 10.0 || 23.3 || 3.4 || 15.8 || 15.5 || 23.2 || 1.2 || 8.1 || 21.8
|}
|--
! Round 4: Transferring surplus votes.
|--
|
{| {{prettytable}}
! R || Andr || Chri || Davi || Doug || Gabr || Geof || Lore || Matt || Pat || Stev || Step || Tom || Trey || Exha || Surp || Thre
|---
! 5
| 22.3 || 18.9 || 22.5 || 22.5 || 6.9 || 22.3 || 10.2 || 10.5 || 22.5 || 3.6 || 16.4 || 16.5 || 22.5 || 1.4 || 4.1 || 21.8
|}
|--
! Round 5: Transferring surplus votes.
|--
|
{| {{prettytable}}
! R || Andr || Chri || Davi || Doug || Gabr || Geof || Lore || Matt || Pat || Stev || Step || Tom || Trey || Exha || Surp || Thre
|---
! 6
| 22.0 || 19.3 || 22.1 || 22.1 || 7.1 || 22.0 || 10.5 || 10.7 || 22.1 || 3.7 || 16.7 || 17.0 || 22.1 || 1.4 || 2.0 || 21.8
|}
|--
! Round 6: Transferring surplus votes.
|--
|
{| {{prettytable}}
! R || Andr || Chri || Davi || Doug || Gabr || Geof || Lore || Matt || Pat || Stev || Step || Tom || Trey || Exha || Surp || Thre
|---
! 7
| 21.9 || 19.7 || 22.1 || 21.9 || 7.2 || 21.9 || 10.6 || 10.9 || 22.6 || || 18.7 || 18.1 || 21.9 || 1.5 || 1.9 || 21.8
|}
|--
| <center> '''Round 7: Transferring surplus votes.''' Eliminating candidate Steve Misrack. </center>
|}

For the next four rounds, the redistribution process continues; every
time a vote moves to someone who's already been elected, the fractional
leftovers get transferred in the next round. The number of exhausted
votes increases a little bit each time (some people voted for two,
three,
or four candidates), with a slight (not shown because of rounding)
reduction in the threshold required. The "Surplus" must decrease in
each round, as more and more votes come to rest in the bucket for a
candidate who hasn't yet been elected. After round 6 this process can
not make any more progress: The candidates elected so far have just over
the needed number of votes and moving their fractional votes can't make
enough difference to any unelected candidate to get them elected. So,
we try something else. The lowest ranking remaining candidate now gets
eliminated (sorry Steve Misrack), and his 3.7 full and partial votes
get redistributed to their next preference.

{| {{prettytable}}
|
{| {{prettytable}}
! R || Andr || Chri || Davi || Doug || Gabr || Geof || Lore || Matt || Pat || Stev || Step || Tom || Trey || Exha || Surp || Thre
|---
! 8
|22.8 || 20.4 || 22.1 || 22.5 || || 22.2 || 11.6 || 11.1 || 23.7 || || 19.5 || 19.1 || 22.4 || 1.5 || 5.3 || 21.7
|}
|--
| <center> '''Round 8: Transferring surplus votes.''' Eliminating candidate Gabriel Krabbe.</center>
|}

Even all of Steve's votes still aren't enough to get anyone else
elected, though. So, we eliminate the next lowest candidate, and
redistribute Gabriel Krabbe's votes. Now, he had 3 full-power votes
still unused from the first round, and they go to their second
preferences. He also had a total of 4.2 partial votes gathered as
second or subsequent preferences from other people. These need to be
redistributed, and re-redistributed, until something interesting
happens...

{| {{prettytable}}
|
{| {{prettytable}}
! R || Andr || Chri || Davi || Doug || Gabr || Geof || Lore || Matt || Pat || Stev || Step || Tom || Trey || Exha || Surp || Thre
|---
! 9
| 22.1 || 20.9 || 22.3 || 22.2 || || 22.1 || 12.1 || 11.4 || 22.1 || || 20.1 || 19.9 || 22.2 || 1.6 || 2.5 || 21.7
|}
|--
!Round 9: Transferring surplus votes.
|--
|
{| {{prettytable}}
! R || Andr || Chri || Davi || Doug || Gabr || Geof || Lore || Matt || Pat || Stev || Step || Tom || Trey || Exha || Surp || Thre
|---
!10
| 21.9 || 21.2 || 22.0 || 22.0 || || 21.9 || 12.3 || 11.6 || 22.0 || || 20.3 || 20.3 || 21.9 || 1.7 || 1.2 || 21.7
|}
|--
!Round 10: Transferring surplus votes.
|--
|
{| {{prettytable}}
! R || Andr || Chri || Davi || Doug || Gabr || Geof || Lore || Matt || Pat || Stev || Step || Tom || Trey || Exha || Surp || Thre
|---
!11
| 21.8 || 21.4 || 21.8 || 21.8 || || 21.8 || 12.4 || 11.7 || 21.8 || || 20.5 || 20.5 || 21.8 || 1.7 || 0.6 || 21.7
|}
|--
!Round 11: Transferring surplus votes.
|--
|
{| {{prettytable}}
! R || Andr || Chri || Davi || Doug || Gabr || Geof || Lore || Matt || Pat || Stev || Step || Tom || Trey || Exha || Surp || Thre
|---
!12
| 22.4 || 23.4 || 23.0 || 23.3 || || 22.0 || 14.4 || || 22.5 || || 21.4 || 21.6 || 22.8 || 2.3 || 7.6 || 21.7
|}
|--
| <center> '''Round 12: Transferring surplus votes.''' Eliminating candidate Matthew Barr. Candidate Chris Palmer is elected. </center>
|}

Still not enough votes in any unelected candidate's bucket, nor enough
surplus to make a difference any more, so the lowest-ranking candidate
(Matthew Barr) again gets eliminated. But redistributing other votes is,
now, enough to get Chris Palmer elected.

{| {{prettytable}}
|
{| {{prettytable}}
! R || Andr || Chri || Davi || Doug || Gabr || Geof || Lore || Matt || Pat || Stev || Step || Tom || Trey || Exha || Surp || Thre
|---
! 13
| 22.3 || 22.4 || 22.3 || 22.4 || || 22.2 || 15.1 || || 22.4 || || 22.3 || 22.8 || 22.2 || 2.5 || 6.5 || 21.6
|}
|--
| <center> '''Round 13: Transferring surplus votes.''' Candidate Stephen Potter is elected. Candidate Tom Perrine is elected. </center>
|}

Redistributing all of Matt's votes, remembering that he still has 6
full-power votes from round 1, and the small leftovers from Chris, is
enough to push both Stephen Potter and Tom Perrine over the threshold.
At this point, the seats are filled, the election is over, and Lorette
Cheswick is implicitly eliminated.

If the election had been run as "Vote for one person, and the top nine
get elected" (and assuming that the person ranked first is who would
have got that vote), Matthew Barr would have been elected instead of
Tom Perrine. If it had been run as "Vote for up to nine people" (as
has been done in the past, and assuming again that the people would
have been the up-to-nine top ranked on the ballot), the result would
have been the same as the STV process. This isn't terribly surprising;
the STV process is expected to be fairer to minorities in the face of
party politics, and I couldn't really identify any parties in this
election.

'''Greg Rose''' 
Chair, SAGE Leadership Committee

== Ballots ==

The ballots are available for public examination in the standard BLT format of the Electoral Reform Society.

* The [https://www.sage-members.org/election/ballots.blt ballot file]
*:The MD5 hash of this file is 4cd212bdeca8434ece214aae25129f38.
* [http://stv.sourceforge.net pSTV], open-source software for tabulating Single Transferable Vote ballots. It can open the above BLT file directly.

The ballots in BLT format are below.
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1 11 6 13 1 3 12 2 8 7 5 4 9 10 0
1 1 9 6 3 13 2 11 12 10 5 4 8 7 0
1 2 4 6 13 3 11 10 5 12 9 8 7 1 0
1 13 9 3 4 1 6 8 0
1 13 10 11 9 7 6 5 4 3 1 2 8 12 0
1 6 13 3 1 2 5 12 11 9 8 0
1 6 3 13 11 8 9 0
1 6 3 13 9 1 7 12 5 2 0
1 6 1 9 13 3 8 11 12 7 2 0
1 1 2 4 11 10 13 12 9 8 5 6 3 7 0
1 3 4 12 6 10 8 11 2 13 0
1 6 9 1 13 10 12 7 4 0
1 4 3 13 1 6 9 7 2 8 10 11 12 5 0
1 12 11 2 8 6 1 7 10 5 0
1 1 7 0
1 6 9 13 4 5 2 12 3 11 8 1 10 7 0
1 6 13 3 1 4 9 2 5 10 12 11 8 7 0
1 3 6 9 13 4 12 5 2 10 11 8 7 0
1 4 12 2 9 8 7 10 11 1 0
1 13 1 2 3 9 5 6 4 12 10 7 8 11 0
1 13 12 6 3 11 9 1 4 8 5 2 7 0
1 2 11 12 8 13 0
1 1 11 13 9 5 8 10 12 6 3 2 4 7 0
1 7 5 9 1 2 13 10 0
1 6 2 3 13 11 10 12 8 5 4 1 7 9 0
1 6 3 4 9 8 10 13 11 1 12 7 2 5 0
1 9 8 13 11 1 12 2 4 6 5 3 10 7 0
1 6 4 3 12 13 7 9 1 0
1 6 9 7 13 12 3 1 10 2 11 5 8 4 0
1 6 11 12 9 3 13 4 5 8 2 1 10 7 0
1 4 1 6 13 11 9 0
1 3 13 6 1 7 5 9 11 10 2 8 12 4 0
1 3 7 2 9 11 5 8 0
1 13 11 3 6 2 4 1 5 7 8 9 10 12 0
1 6 3 8 1 0
1 13 11 6 9 12 2 3 1 10 4 5 7 8 0
1 4 13 3 0
1 1 3 6 9 13 4 12 5 2 7 10 8 11 0
1 7 9 13 3 1 6 12 0
1 1 13 11 12 6 10 9 3 5 8 7 4 2 0
1 4 1 3 13 9 5 2 6 7 10 8 12 11 0
1 13 1 4 6 3 9 11 12 0
1 11 10 1 2 3 4 12 13 5 7 6 8 9 0
1 13 9 8 7 3 11 2 12 6 10 5 1 4 0
1 12 6 2 13 11 9 3 1 4 8 5 7 10 0
1 13 9 7 8 12 4 3 2 6 10 5 1 11 0
1 13 7 12 1 2 3 6 9 8 11 10 5 4 0
1 9 3 4 2 6 13 5 12 7 1 8 11 10 0
1 3 12 2 4 13 9 7 5 6 8 0
1 4 6 8 3 13 9 11 12 1 0
1 5 13 1 6 9 12 10 3 4 2 0
1 1 8 12 4 2 9 10 6 11 3 7 5 13 0
1 11 6 9 13 3 5 12 1 8 0
1 1 3 9 6 13 2 5 11 12 8 4 7 10 0
1 13 12 9 2 11 10 1 3 6 4 8 5 7 0
1 4 6 13 1 11 7 9 0
1 9 3 5 2 13 6 1 10 12 7 8 11 4 0
1 9 13 6 1 12 2 10 8 5 0
1 4 9 13 3 2 12 1 0
1 9 13 12 3 4 8 1 10 6 5 2 11 7 0
0
"Andrew Hume"
"Chris Palmer"
"David Parter"
"Doug Hughes"
"Gabriel Krabbe"
"Geoff Halprin"
"Lorette Cheswick"
"Matthew Barr"
"Pat Wilson"
"Steve Misrack"
"Stephen Potter"
"Tom Perrine"
"Trey Harris"
"Sage Vote 2005"

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	Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:00:40 +1000		Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:00:40 +1000
	From: Greg Rose		From: Greg Rose

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 "Exhausted" is the number of ballots that have gone through all
 the candidates who were voted for, and still haven't elected anyone; these
-arenow out of the running.  For example, there was one person who voted for
+are now out of the running.  For example, there was one person who voted for
 only one candidate; when that candidate got elected with more votes than
 were needed, the leftover fraction of this ballot became exhausted,
-becausethere were no more people listed on it to pass the fractional vote on
+because there were no more people listed on it to pass the fractional vote on
 to.

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 ! R || Andrew || Chris || David || Doug || Gabriel || Geoff || Lorette || Matt || Pat  || Steve || Stephen || Tom || Trey || Exhausted || Surplus || Threshold
 |---
-! 1
+! 2
-|31.0 || 11.0 || 24.0 || 19.0 ||  3.0 || 47.0 ||  5.0 ||  6.0 || 22.0 ||  1.0 ||  9.0 ||  5.0 || 36.0 || 0.0 || 50.5 || 21.9
+| 25.8 || 14.5 || 29.7 || 22.9 ||  4.1 || 24.1 ||  7.2 ||  7.7 || 28.7 ||  2.1 || 12.9 || 10.0 || 28.7 || 0.6 || 28.7 || 21.8
 |}
 |--

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 ;Number of Ballots: 219
 ;Threshold Name: Droop Dynamic Fractional
-candidates running for 9 seats.
+'''13 candidates running for 9 seats.'''
 {| {{prettytable}}

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 * The [https://www.sage-members.org/election/ballots.blt ballot file]
 *:The MD5 hash of this file is 4cd212bdeca8434ece214aae25129f38.
-* [http://stv.sourceforge.net pSTV], open-source software for tabulating Single Transferable Vote ballots.  It can open the above BLT file directly.
+* [http://stv.sourceforge.net pSTV], open-source software for tabulating Single Transferable Vote ballots.  It can open the above BLT file directly.  The BLT format is described in pSTV's [http://stv.sourceforge.net/Help.html documentation].
 The ballots in BLT format are below.

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 == Explanation of tabulation ==
-A more detailed explanation of the above results (my apologies if the
+A more detailed explanation of the above results:
-First, the basic premise of a "single transferrable vote preferential
+First, the basic premise of a "[http://en.wikipedia.org/Single_Transferable_Vote single transferable vote preferential system]" is that every ballot (that isn't exhausted, see later) goes
 towards electing one person. That one person will be the highest ranked
 candidate on the ballot who was electable. Sometimes the candidate with