Anti-Harassment Tools/SecurePoll Improvements/Test Results/math-stackexchange-com-2012-election-results

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SecurePoll and OpenSTV agree on elected candidates.

SO lists two extra winners for that election, even though the .blt file only has 2 seats. I could not find any explanation of this.

I re-ran SecurePoll with 4 seats, and the elected candidates were the same as listed by stack overflow.

Election: https://math.stackexchange.com/election/3

Election setup

• Candidates: 8
• Seats: 4
• Votes: 363

Actual results latest

See: https://vote.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/tally/1350

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Expected

Output from OpenSTV: https://math.stackexchange.com/election/3

Loading ballots from file math-stackexchange-com-2012-election-results.blt.
Ballot file contains 8 candidates and 363 ballots.
No candidates have withdrawn.
Ballot file contains 363 non-empty ballots.

Counting votes for Mathematics Stack Exchange Moderator Election 2012 using Meek STV.
8 candidates running for 4 seats.

 R|Candidate 1|Candidate 2|Candidate 3|Candidate 4|Candidate 5|Candidate 6
  |           |           |           |           |           |           
  |-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------
  |Candidate 7|Candidate 8|Exhausted  |Surplus    |Threshold  
  |           |           |           |           |           
==========================================================================
 1| 156.000000|  74.000000|   6.000000|  10.000000|  11.000000|  53.000000
  |  52.000000|   1.000000|   0.000000|  84.799998|  72.600001
  |-----------------------------------------------------------------------
  | Count of first choices. Candidates Candidate 1 and Candidate 2 have
  | reached the threshold and are elected.
==========================================================================
 2|  72.758534| 109.315148|   7.098261|  13.370455|  14.447435|  69.735545
  |  65.501089|   2.603845|   8.169688|  40.141556|  70.966063
  |-----------------------------------------------------------------------
  | Count after transferring surplus votes. Keep factors of candidates who
  | have exceeded the threshold: Candidate 1, 0.465385 and Candidate 2,
  | 0.981082.
==========================================================================
 3|  73.778193|  71.477270|   7.653530|  16.412962|  18.898795|  82.924691
  |  78.084352|   2.638240|  11.131967|  24.770078|  70.373607
  |-----------------------------------------------------------------------
  | Count after transferring surplus votes. Keep factors of candidates who
  | have exceeded the threshold: Candidate 1, 0.453920 and Candidate 2,
  | 0.636907. Candidates Candidate 6 and Candidate 7 have reached the
  | threshold and are elected.

Winners are Candidate 1, Candidate 2, Candidate 6, and Candidate 7.

Files

• blt: https://math.stackexchange.com/election/download-result/3
• php:

Environment

• Where you tested: local docker using phpunit
• Latest version of SecurePoll tested: 3.0.0 (f06e679) 21:48, 24 August 2021