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curiouswombatAs today is the day the UK have a referendum on their political voting system I thought a Public Information Post might be appreciated... :~)
I live somewhere which toyed with the idea of Single Transferable Vote - which is fairly much the same as AV. We decided against it because we have a multi-seat constituency system and no real political parties and so it was deemed that STV probably wasn't necessary.
However - we get the UK PPBs (Part Political Broadcasts) on our televisions anyway, and the current ones about AV, if I don't have the zapper within reach - and we also watch UK news. So it has not escaped my notice that many UK politicians feel that a lot of Brits can't cope with anything more complicated than a cross.
So - to help you understand AV I have a simple model courtesy of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
infinitemonkeys;
List the candidates in the order in which you would rescue them from a burning building. When you've listed all the ones you'd bother about, stop.
By the way - the second sentence seems to be the bit the anti-AV people don't mention - they give the impression that you HAVE TO give everyone a number - but you can just choose to replace your previous 'X' with '1' and then, if your candidate doesn't get in your vote won't actually go to anyone else.
There now - I'm sure even you poor people who are deemed too stupid to understand complicated things like politics (Fellow nurses for example...if Andrew Landsley is to be believed) can understand it now!
I live somewhere which toyed with the idea of Single Transferable Vote - which is fairly much the same as AV. We decided against it because we have a multi-seat constituency system and no real political parties and so it was deemed that STV probably wasn't necessary.
However - we get the UK PPBs (Part Political Broadcasts) on our televisions anyway, and the current ones about AV, if I don't have the zapper within reach - and we also watch UK news. So it has not escaped my notice that many UK politicians feel that a lot of Brits can't cope with anything more complicated than a cross.
So - to help you understand AV I have a simple model courtesy of
infinitemonkeys;List the candidates in the order in which you would rescue them from a burning building. When you've listed all the ones you'd bother about, stop.
By the way - the second sentence seems to be the bit the anti-AV people don't mention - they give the impression that you HAVE TO give everyone a number - but you can just choose to replace your previous 'X' with '1' and then, if your candidate doesn't get in your vote won't actually go to anyone else.
There now - I'm sure even you poor people who are deemed too stupid to understand complicated things like politics (Fellow nurses for example...if Andrew Landsley is to be believed) can understand it now!
