Anti-Harassment Tools/SecurePoll Improvements/Test Results/stackoverflow-com-2013-election-results

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SecurePoll and my local OpenSTV agree on elected candidates.

For some reason on the stack overflow page, there are two extra candidates who were elected. I don't understand this, as originally there are only 4 seats available. Reading here they list the same 4 candidates as winners as SecurePoll, and a 5th candidate who was added after the election due to another moderator stepping down. I assume the same thing happened for the 6th winner.

Election setup

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  • Candidates: 10
  • Seats: 4
  • Votes: 6449

Actual results latest

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See: https://vote.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/tally/1225

Actual results archive

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Expected

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Output from OpenSTV: https://stackoverflow.com/election/4

Loading ballots from file stackoverflow-com-2013-election-results.blt.
Ballot file contains 10 candidates and 6449 ballots.
No candidates have withdrawn.
Ballot file contains 6449 non-empty ballots.

Counting votes for Stack Overflow Moderator Election 2013 using Meek STV.
10 candidates running for 4 seats.

 R|Candidate 1   |Candidate 2   |Candidate 3   |Candidate 4   |Candidate 5   
  |--------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+--------------
  |Candidate 6   |Candidate 7   |Candidate 8   |Candidate 9   |Candidate 10  
  |--------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+--------------
  |Exhausted     |Surplus       |Threshold     
=============================================================================
 1|    618.000000|   1240.000000|    930.000000|    736.000000|    491.000000
  |    554.000000|    466.000000|    553.000000|    360.000000|    501.000000
  |      0.000000|      0.000000|   1289.800001
  |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  | Count of first choices.
=============================================================================
 2|    649.000000|   1280.000000|    980.000000|    766.000000|    530.000000
  |    589.000000|    509.000000|    582.000000|              |    546.000000
  |     18.000000|      0.000000|   1286.200001
  |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  | Count after eliminating Candidate 9 and transferring votes. All losing
  | candidates are eliminated.
=============================================================================
 3|    700.000000|   1353.000000|   1045.000000|    843.000000|    620.000000
  |    639.000000|              |    624.000000|              |    585.000000
  |     40.000000|     71.199999|   1281.800001
  |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  | Count after eliminating Candidate 7 and transferring votes. All losing
  | candidates are eliminated. Candidate Candidate 2 has reached the
  | threshold and is elected.
=============================================================================
 4|    709.682632|   1281.801081|   1052.577712|    861.365427|    629.051156
  |    648.840501|              |    630.367383|              |    590.630661
  |     44.683447|      0.937770|   1280.863311
  |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  | Count after transferring surplus votes. Keep factors of candidates who
  | have exceeded the threshold: Candidate 2, 0.947377.
=============================================================================
 5|    792.682469|   1374.644027|   1149.840664|    926.417887|    684.893124
  |    712.892961|              |    700.051482|              |              
  |    107.577386|    106.359504|   1268.284523
  |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  | Count after eliminating Candidate 10 and transferring votes. All losing
  | candidates are eliminated.
=============================================================================
 6|    807.562369|   1268.285727|   1162.155064|    953.465587|    698.673524
  |    728.066061|              |    709.873682|              |              
  |    120.917986|      2.669324|   1265.616403
  |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  | Count after transferring surplus votes. Keep factors of candidates who
  | have exceeded the threshold: Candidate 2, 0.874077.
=============================================================================
 7|    903.465982|   1381.915737|   1226.043909|   1057.998815|              
  |    808.858519|              |    805.895834|              |              
  |    264.821204|    145.079977|   1236.835760
  |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  | Count after eliminating Candidate 5 and transferring votes. All losing
  | candidates are eliminated.
=============================================================================
 8|    924.938758|   1236.836853|   1242.836721|   1095.163235|              
  |    832.074811|              |    820.394546|              |              
  |    296.755076|     18.775604|   1230.448985
  |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  | Count after transferring surplus votes. Keep factors of candidates who
  | have exceeded the threshold: Candidate 2, 0.782313. Candidate Candidate 3
  | has reached the threshold and is elected.
=============================================================================
 9|    928.858543|   1231.776068|   1231.181318|   1098.061692|              
  |    835.177560|              |    822.198952|              |              
  |    301.745867|      4.055732|   1229.450827
  |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  | Count after transferring surplus votes. Keep factors of candidates who
  | have exceeded the threshold: Candidate 2, 0.778273 and Candidate 3,
  | 0.990033.
=============================================================================
10|   1018.009101|   1327.643273|   1364.934500|   1203.399619|              
  |    944.959943|              |              |              |              
  |    590.053564|    380.609528|   1171.789288
  |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  | Count after eliminating Candidate 8 and transferring votes. All losing
  | candidates are eliminated. Candidate Candidate 4 has reached the
  | threshold and is elected.
=============================================================================
11|   1089.378772|   1194.476346|   1190.925199|   1229.881084|              
  |   1008.709605|              |              |              |              
  |    735.628994|    187.260023|   1142.674202
  |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  | Count after transferring surplus votes. Keep factors of candidates who
  | have exceeded the threshold: Candidate 2, 0.686911; Candidate 3,
  | 0.849939; and Candidate 4, 0.973733.
=============================================================================
12|   1118.398024|   1158.309221|   1155.681178|   1158.999504|              
  |   1039.375308|              |              |              |              
  |    818.236765|     94.531959|   1126.152648
  |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  | Count after transferring surplus votes. Keep factors of candidates who
  | have exceeded the threshold: Candidate 2, 0.657121; Candidate 3,
  | 0.815504; and Candidate 4, 0.904689.
=============================================================================
13|   1133.727368|   1132.801334|   1132.091601|   1135.869463|              
  |   1055.088510|              |              |              |              
  |    859.421724|     62.827142|   1117.915656
  |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  | Count after transferring surplus votes. Keep factors of candidates who
  | have exceeded the threshold: Candidate 2, 0.638879; Candidate 3,
  | 0.794668; and Candidate 4, 0.879050. Candidate Candidate 1 has reached
  | the threshold and is elected.

Winners are Candidate 1, Candidate 2, Candidate 3, and Candidate 4.

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Environment

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