> I think I've come around a minor bug in OpenSTV. There is a straight-
> forward work-around to the bug.

> A. Bug description: In OpenSTV it is not possible to run an election
> with as many or less candidates as there are seats. OpenSTV allows a
> maximum of candidates of one minus the number of seats.

> Why is this a problem:
> B. In GPCA STV, which uses static quotas, the fact that there are as
> many candidates as seats is no guarantee that all the candidates will
> be elected. Thus it is necessary to actually perform the election and
> count the votes to know who was elected.

> C. When in other STV methods, all candidates are in theory always
> elected in the case when there are as many (or less) candidates as
> there are seats. Therefore, in this case in general, it is not
> necessary to use OpenSTV to know who was elected.
> However sometimes, it is necessary to know the order in which the
> candidates are elected. For example: say we have a 3-seat election,
> with only men candidating and a gender-quota rule requiring minimally
> one person of each gender to be eleced to the 3 seats. In this case we
> need to know who of the three elected men was elected last. The man
> elected 3rd will not get a seat due to the gender rule. Thus to
> correctly apply the gender quota rule, it is necessary to actually
> perform the electiion and count the votes in this case to know who was
> elected 3rd.

> D. The work-around to the bug is to add one or more candidates with
> zero votes in the ballot file. This will not affect the election
> results.

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