In equal number of votes situation, who should win?

[Sjan1]

In the following example, "APE" wins, while the number of votes equals. Is the winner determined alphabetically?

ballot_plurality_subset
GO APE
[1,] 1 0
[2,] 0 1
[3,] 1 0
[4,] 1 0
[5,] 0 1
[6,] 1 0
[7,] 0 1
[8,] 0 1
plurality(ballot_plurality_subset, nseats = 1)

Results of Plurality voting

Number of valid votes: 8
Number of invalid votes: 0
Number of candidates: 2
Number of seats: 1

	Candidate	Total	Elected
1	GO	4
2	APE	4	x
Sum		8

Elected: APE

[hanase]

It's not alphabetical. It's simply the last candidate, since it is using rev(sort(total))[1:nseats] to get the totals in a decreasing order.

[Sjan1]

While the function works the way it should, which is reassuring, I find the behaviour misleading. When the two candidates reach the same number of votes, it would be fair to win for both of them. And print a message of why it happened.