On 03/05/2011 21:08, John Williamson wrote:
Roger Mills wrote:
See the whole thing illustrated rather cleverly in Dan Snow's video,
to be screened on TV this evening - and available he
http://www.yestofairervotes.org/page...03DanSnowEmail
Doesn't match my experience of such things. Beer or coffee? Okay, which
pub/ coffeshop? But that's not really relevant to Parliament.
It was just an illustration of choosing between alternatives - and is
equally applicable to drinking venues and parliamentary candidates.
When there were just 2 venues/candidates - no problem, simple majority
sorts it.
But when there are multiple options/candidates, this doesn't work. In
the FPTP illustration, the coffee shop won even though more people
wanted to go *a* (though not the same) pub. When they applied some sort
of AV (I didn't quite understand the methodology) they ended up going to
a pub that everyone was happy with.
When there are multiple candidates in an election, simply choosing the
person with the most votes even though they are way short of 50% isn't
the best way of finding the candidate whom most people are happy with.
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Cheers,
Roger
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