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Originally Posted by Wonko View Post
Actually, Borda calculates a vote count for each candidate which seems not to rely on the seat count (the value of the "-s" option). I tested this for all votings with seat numbers from 1 to 4. In all cases the calculated vote count did not change depending on the number of seats. This is also expected behavior if you look at the definition of how Borda works: http://www.openstv.org/borda-count
Assume we have 3 candidates, A, B and C. Are you suggesting it is possible that *STV could elect A for -s 1 and B and C for -s 2?