What all the minority parties will be pushing like mad is that you
need to put them somewhere in your vote, so please rank all
candidates. So the Sheeple will.

Which may increase pressure to change the current practice of listing
candidates alphabetically*. There is already concern that this favours
those listed first. With AV, there be a tendency among some to go down
the page after (or indeed without) voting for their top pick - sometimes
called "donkey voting". Australia uses a system which shuffles names so
candidate's names appear a certain proportion of times at every position
on the paper to even this out. Now that must add to the costs of
running elections so the "Yes" campaign have lied too.


* although that alone is not enough to explain the alphabetism in
British politics that we gave us Cameron (in coalition with Clegg)
following Brown and Blair
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Robin
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