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Goldwater
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« Reply #25 on: August 23, 2012, 11:25:41 PM »
« edited: August 23, 2012, 11:27:39 PM by Northeast Representative Goldwater »

I hate to be the party pooped for a second time in this thread, but Goldwater, I think your amendment causes more problems than it solves. The candidate with the most first preferences is always supposed to win. Therefore, a tie would mean each candidate has the same number of first preferences so the tie would be solved by going to second preferences. Here, there never really was a tie to begin with.

Really? The Constitution just says votes, which I assumed to mean votes in the final round, and in that case me & Alfred were tied.
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« Reply #26 on: August 23, 2012, 11:38:11 PM »

I hate to be the party pooped for a second time in this thread, but Goldwater, I think your amendment causes more problems than it solves. The candidate with the most first preferences is always supposed to win. Therefore, a tie would mean each candidate has the same number of first preferences so the tie would be solved by going to second preferences. Here, there never really was a tie to begin with.

Really? The Constitution just says votes, which I assumed to mean votes in the final round, and in that case me & Alfred were tied.

In the final round there would be many tied candidates because once you reach the quota the surplus votes are transfered. It is near impossible for the most votes clause to refer to the final round of a PR-ST election.
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Goldwater
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« Reply #27 on: August 23, 2012, 11:55:59 PM »

I hate to be the party pooped for a second time in this thread, but Goldwater, I think your amendment causes more problems than it solves. The candidate with the most first preferences is always supposed to win. Therefore, a tie would mean each candidate has the same number of first preferences so the tie would be solved by going to second preferences. Here, there never really was a tie to begin with.

Really? The Constitution just says votes, which I assumed to mean votes in the final round, and in that case me & Alfred were tied.

In the final round there would be many tied candidates because once you reach the quota the surplus votes are transfered. It is near impossible for the most votes clause to refer to the final round of a PR-ST election.

Ah, I see. I still think that it needs be rewritten in way to make it clear that the person with the most first preferences becomes Lieutenant Governor, so I have introduced a different amendment.
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