:(
This is sad knews, no matter what the anti-STV fanatics say. STV had
flaws, it's still a far better system than FPP. The anti-STV campaign
put out a huge misinformation campaign which did nothing but say "Hey
look at how complicated STV is? AN ALGORITHM FOR VOTING! WHY EVEN HAVE
VOTERS!" It was stupid, and generations later BC is going to regret
what they passed up.
Kathy Dopp wrote:
FYI,
http://www.penmachine.com/2009/05/bc-voters-prefer-lame-status-quo
The voters of BC were intelligent to reject STV because STV's
inequitable treatment of voters' ballots (counting only some voters'
2nd and 3rd choices and not counting the 2nd choices of a large group
of voters' whose 1st choice loses in the final counting round and not
counting many voters' 2nd and 3rd choices until after those candidates
have been eliminated) causes so many undesirable problems including
electing majority *opposed* candidates and eliminating majority
favored candidates, nonmonotonicity, eliminating many voters before
the final counting round, making central counting necessary, making
the counting complex to do by hand, making auditing the accuracy of
the results very difficult, etc.
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