VoteVote web polls are designed to produce satisfactory representation for everyone, with majority rule. If your favorite candidate has too few votes to win, your vote will be transferred to your next favorite, if possible. If your favorite candidate has more than enough votes, some ballots may be partially transferred so that all winners represent roughly equal numbers of voters. This is a system called the Single Transferable Vote or STV. An example of a situation where it might be used is to elect three councillors to represent a single district.
Tips:
- Your lower choices won't hurt the chances of your higher choices.
- You can't give two or more candidates the same rank.
- Only the order of your ranked candidates matters, and not the actual numbers.
- You can give many preferences as you like, until you are indifferent between the remaining candidates, there is no need to stop when you've voted for as many candidates as there are positions.
- If you don't rank a candidate, it means you'd rather not have your vote count than have it count toward that candidate.