We should be able to start from this old patch set: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/SecurePoll/+/673601/2

As outlined in T281032, we plan to implement STV using this basic algorithm:

For a similar task we did previously, see T280528

The question then is, did this recently change? Well, ApiClientLogin.php has not substantially changed in over 4 years. This didn't regress there. But maybe somewhere else the lack of isWriteMode() was previously ignored and now taken into account? [...]

Thanks @Majavah - I've closed this as a duplicate and added some more details to the original

From the duplicate task:

In T282586#7080999, @dom_walden wrote:

Do we also want to hide this behind the feature flag, so it does not show when action restrictions are disabled?

Here is how they look on Special:CentralAuth (I don't know if we affected this. I imagine we are just missing a translation) [...]

In T280275#7074879, @dom_walden wrote:

If it helps, I have been able to reproduce this on beta with 1000 votes: https://vote.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/tally/632

I couldn't do this before because, at the time of testing this feature, beta was having reliability problems :(.

Thanks @DannyS712. From a cursory glance, NameTableStore looks promising, though I'm not familiar with it yet.

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Manually check if row exists before inserting then skip if it does (essentially INSERT IGNORE that is code driven) or

Having discussed this with the engineers, it sounds like we might need to:

• Reopen T277222: Create job to tally elections [M]
• Reconsider doing T277226: Make Echo notification for when tallying is done

We should consider whether it would be helpful to make this test extensible, as a base class for tests for the Tallier subclasses. If extra work is required to do this, we can file it as a follow-up.