From: Johnathan Shaw 
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Sent: Thursday, 24 September 2020 10:40 AM
To: Farha, Rejwana <
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Cc: Sekhon, Jiv <
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Subject: RE: eVACS Codes Audit - Certificate for Count Module
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Hi Rejwana,
Re: Implementation of 6-decimal places as er telephone discussion.
With votes being counted to 6 decimal places the definition of surplus(below) in the Election Act
is now “unusual”
schedule 4.1 “surplus, in relation to a successful candidate, means the candidate’s total votes
less the quota, if the resulting number of votes is 1 or greater”
Consider the edge case where
the resulting number of votes is a fraction less than 1 (i.e. between 0.000001 and
0.999999 inclusive.)
This fraction of a vote is technically not a surplus due to the above definition
Please advise how the count implementation should action this edge case :-
1. treat the same as “equals quota”
i.e. ballots stay on the successful candidate same as equals quota.
This implementation is consistent with Schedule 4 definition.
2. Distribute the fraction like a surplus (all ballots moved to next preference at a transfer
value)
This implementation is consistent with a legislation drafting issue. i.e. when rounding to
6 places was introduced the highlighted text should of been removed.
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Johnathan Shaw | Senior Consultant, Australia Asia Pacific
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