Each of the candidates are running for all four open positions at once, right? So in order to determine who gets which position, they positions much be ranked (conceptually). Actually, this seems clear from the ballot structure, with the top down preferencing. (Rather than having bottom up preferencing until there were four candidates left.)
This is also what happens in the Australian Senate if there is a double dissolution election of the Senate and the whole of the Senate has to be reelected at the same time, in order to reestablish the staggered election pattern of the Senate. (The Australian Senate has a similar top-down preference count, although it's proportional as well as preferential.) (http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/rn/2002-03/03rn45.pdf)
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Each of the candidates are running for all four open positions at once, right? So in order to determine who gets which position, they positions much be ranked (conceptually). Actually, this seems clear from the ballot structure, with the top down preferencing. (Rather than having bottom up preferencing until there were four candidates left.)
This is also what happens in the Australian Senate if there is a double dissolution election of the Senate and the whole of the Senate has to be reelected at the same time, in order to reestablish the staggered election pattern of the Senate. (The Australian Senate has a similar top-down preference count, although it's proportional as well as preferential.) (http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/rn/2002-03/03rn45.pdf)