PLACE FAQ: Difference between revisions

# Before the election, candidates may endorse other candidates through some official, public means. This determines how votes for any given candidate (let's call them X) will be transferred if X loses. In order, the vote will pass through the following groups, until it's used up by a winning candidate.

## "Same faction": same-party candidates endorsed by X. To discourage people from running purely as vote funnels for a singled candidate, if X endorses any same-faction candidates, they must endorse at least 2. There may also be rules on the maximum number of same-faction candidates, to simplify including a full list on the ballot.

## "Same party": same-party candidates not endorsed by X.

## "Allies": endorsed by X but not in X's party.

## That leaves "Opponents", those who are neither endorsed by, nor in the same party as, X. These will never get a transferred vote from X; if they are all that remain, the ballot is considered "exhausted".

# The ballot lists the candidates running locally, and also has a write-in slot for each party. You can choose a local candidate, choose a party, or write in a candidate from another district.

#* If you check the write-in line for a given party but do not write in a valid candidate, your vote will simply pass through that party's candidates in order of direct votes until it's used up or they run out and it's exhausted.

# Ballots are tallied, and any candidate who got less than 25% of the local vote is eliminated (unless they got more local votes than any other).

#* For these purposes, the at-large percentage of party-only votes are added to each party's total. So if candidate X got 20% of their district and 6% of the voters in all districts voted for that party without choosing a candidate, X would pass the 25% threshold.