2025/09/16 by Andrew Conway, Michelle Blom, Conway, Andrew +9
Computer Science · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Social Sciences · #Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT) #Computers and Society (cs.CY) #Electoral Systems and Political Participation #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Game Theory and Voting Systems #Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2509.13370
openalex publication_date 2025/09/16 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Single Transferable Vote (STV) counting, used in several jurisdictions in Australia, is a system for choosing multiple election winners given voters' preferences among candidates. The system is complex and it is not always obvious how an individual's vote contributes to candidates' tallies across rounds of tabulation. This short paper presents a demonstration system that allows voters to enter an example vote in a past Australian STV election, and see: (i)~how that vote would have been transferred between candidates; and (ii)~how much that vote would have contributed to the tallies of relevant candidates, across rounds of tabulation.