Ah, I hadn’t thought of that, and I can see how this makes the results indeterminate (because reallocating the votes from one joint-last candidate could bump the other joint-last candidate up from the bottom).
I’ll have a think about how to handle this and get back to you, my initial thought is still to break ties randomly (with a stable-but-random ranking of the precedence of each candidate in a tie).
Update (I came across this while prepping voting for this year’s election): I did add this random tie breaking in the system last year, and by default it will be used again this year
Ah, I hadn’t thought of that, and I can see how this makes the results indeterminate (because reallocating the votes from one joint-last candidate could bump the other joint-last candidate up from the bottom).
I’ll have a think about how to handle this and get back to you, my initial thought is still to break ties randomly (with a stable-but-random ranking of the precedence of each candidate in a tie).
Update (I came across this while prepping voting for this year’s election): I did add this random tie breaking in the system last year, and by default it will be used again this year