normalise: Support tie

[appendix-a6.git] / README.format

diff --git a/README.format b/README.format
index 6bbc5d605146ae2eae18b7972ceb609e78661586..1a75aaeb86327188d9cf7d97518833c26acbdb57 100644 (file)
--- a/README.format
+++ b/README.format
@@ -60,6 +60,10 @@ Currently defined OPTNAMEs (default values shown)
  Election   seats=1     Number of seats to be filled.
  Election   _nodefault  For Debian A6, no default option
  Election   quorum=NUM  Quorum (default, none)
+ Election   _tie=C,C>D,D  Tie break: in tie of Cs vs Ds,
+                            take Cs to have more votes than Ds.
+                            also available with <, normalised to >
+                            normalised form has Cs and Ds sorted
 
  Candidate  Super=1:1   For Debian A6, RAT:IO, 
  Candidate  default     For Debian A6, Is the default option