Clear as mud

Ever wondered how the new voting system for Scottish local government will work? Well, don't look at the Scottish Executive website. This is from today's press release (here):

The key points of STV are:

Each council ward will now be represented by either three or four members, depending on its size.

Voters will be able to rank the candidates for election in their ward in any order they want.

They will be able to do this by putting a '1' for their favourite, a '2' for the next, and so on.

Voters can rank as many, or as few candidates as they want.

If the voter's first choice does not need their vote, either because he or she is elected without it, or because he or she has too few votes to be elected, then the vote is transferred to the voter's second choice candidate.

These transfers continue until the correct number of candidates are elected.

Understood?

(I may be asking questions later.)