cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/32072753

It’s time for us to nominate our /c/rage’s Lemmyvision 3 song!

Over the past few weeks, our community has submitted nominations, and we have until 3rd May to pick a winner. Our Lemmyvision representatives @Gorgritch_umie_killa and @zero_gravitas have again delegated our election to an independent agency, the Aussie.zone Eureka Commission (AEC).

Anyone who has recently commented a few times on aussie.zone before today is allowed to vote. (This includes, for example, various Australians on other instances)

This election uses preferential Instant-Runoff Voting[wiki] just like our federal elections. Put simply, this means that if your [1] choice has no chance of election, your vote then moves over to your [2] choice, and so on.

Here are the entries. Please listen to them all before voting:

Here is the ballot template for you to fill in. Copy and paste it as a new reply to this post, and number ALL boxes from 1 to 10 in order of your choice. [1] is your preferred choice, [10] is your least preferred.

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**Lemmyvision 3 /c/rage Nomination Ballot**

Place a number inside the box next to ALL songs, ranking them from 1 to 10 in order of preference.
```json
[]  King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Grow Wings and Fly
[]  Genesis Owusu - DEATH CULT ZOMBIE
[]  Peach PRC - Miss Erotica
[]  Ben Gerrans - London Lights
[]  Ball Park Music - Please Don't Move to Melbourne
[]  Ecca Vandal - BLEACH
[]  Tame Impala - Dracula
[]  PLAYLUNCH - Keith
[]  The Terrys - Work Out Fine
[]  Tanzer - Maximum Glamour
```
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  • eureka@aussie.zoneEnglish
    2·
    19 hours ago

    One question would you go all nine rounds every time? In other words if there were clearer favourites that would reduce the number of rounds? Or is the aim to eliminate one candidate at a time and redirect only those flows each round

    Good question! The answer is ‘potentially yes’. Running nine rounds for ten candidates was a sign of how spread out the taste was, compounded by the low ballots:candidates ratio. Last year, which by coincidence also had 10 candidates, had clearer favourites (the top two receiving 43% and 29% of the primary vote) and a couple more ballots but it still went for 8 rounds. The number of rounds depends on how many are necessary to bring one candidate to over 50% of the vote - gaining a majority.

    Consider if three of us made Please Don’t Move to Melbourne our primary vote. Since there were five ballots in total, it would already have 60% of the vote in the first round, ending the count in the first round!

    You’re right to notice that the tool I’ve used eliminates one candidate each round, and since most candidates had 0 primary votes to redistribute, nothing changes for the first few rounds. I didn’t know this until you asked, but there’s a technique called ‘batch elimination’ which could have been used to eliminate those lowest five in a single round, since their combined vote in the first round was 0 (obviously less than the next-lowest candidates’ vote of 1). This technique would have reduced the count to five rounds. "Batch elimination was originally a way to simplify hand-counting of [IRV] ballots, but is still used [to simplify the results presentation] in many U.S. [IRV] elections which use machine counting ". The website I used to process the IRV doesn’t support batch elimination.