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PEP 13: Clarify tie resolution (#4672)
Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <[email protected]>
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@@ -107,8 +107,8 @@ A council election consists of two phases:
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* Phase 2: Each core team member can assign zero to five stars to each
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candidate. Voting is performed anonymously. The outcome of the vote
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is determined using the `STAR voting system <https://www.starvoting.org/>`__,
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modified to use the `Multi-winner Bloc STAR <https://www.starvoting.org/multi_winner>`__)
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approach. If a tie occurs, it may
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modified to use the `Multi-winner Bloc STAR <https://www.starvoting.org/multi_winner>`__
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approach. If a tie that is not automatically resolved by the election software occurs, it may
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be resolved by mutual agreement among the candidates, or else the
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winner will be chosen at random.
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Adopted Multi-winner Bloc STAR voting for council elections.
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* `2024-12-10 <https://discuss.python.org/t/72293/4>`__:
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Added a one-week deadline for seconding a vote of no confidence.
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* `2025-11-12 <https://discuss.python.org/t/104607>`__:
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Clarified that the software used for elections may resolve ties
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automatically if possible.
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