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Line 1: BLT is a text-based file format used to record (voting) 'preference profiles' in STV elections. Highland Council's election software uses it and HRC election results are made publicly available in it. In December 2021, [[EMD/WedHeads\|EMD]] wrote a C program to read a BLT file and determine the winner of a single-seat (aka [[AV]]) election, given below (to copy it: select Read/Edit source, above). Other than that the 'T' seems likely to stand for 'table', the meaning of the acronym 'BLT' is not known. ''NB: ~~Unfortunately~~Originally, some of the asterisks ~~display~~were displaying as bullet-points below; this and other artifacting iswas due to the way MediaWiki processes free text. The workaround was to indent the whole damnéd thing by a couple of spaces: I'll try to fix it properly at some point.'' -S [[User:Ftwm\|Ftwm]] ([[User talk:Ftwm\|talk]]) 11:18, 17 December 2021 (GMT)<br /><code> ~~<code>~~ / This program is (C) E M Drayton 2021. Modification is prohibited. * You are free to compile and run it for non-commercial purposes. Line 341 ⟶ 339: #undef H #undef H_ </code>