"Mark" wrote in message
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On Mon, 2 May 2011 13:05:21 +0100, "Thumper"
I'll be voting No because it is actually the fairer system. Each voter
gets
1 vote, votes are added up, candidate with most votes is the winner. Can't
get more fairer than that.

I totally disagree. Under FPTP if you don't vote for the eventual
winner than your vote is thrown away and counts for nothing, even if
your candidate got only 1 less vote than the winner. A government
could be elected with a majority of seats having less votes than
another party.

If you happen to vote for one of the losing candidates it's just tough. Get
over it!


With AV the supporters of extremist and single issue parties will often
get
their votes counted several times,

No, no, no. You have the option of transferring your vote if your
higher preference candidate is eliminated. This is not the same as
having your vote "counted" more than once.

You don't really have an "option" to transfer your vote; it just happens if
your first choice was the eliminated candidate. So that's your choices
counted twice.