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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, some of the asterisks display as bullet-points below; this artifacting is due to the way MediaWiki processes free text. I'll try to fix it at some point.'' -S [[User:Ftwm|Ftwm]] ([[User talk:Ftwm|talk]]) 11:18, 17 December 2021 (GMT)
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/** This program is (C) E M Drayton 2021. Modification is prohibited.
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