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
:(
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
Anthony O'Neal Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 7:04 PM
This is sad news, 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
maybe they had a political agenda for opposing reform and
just wanted to hide behind their misrepresentations of STV.
This is, in my opinion, the essence of the problem. While misunderstandings of
many sorts are common, and while not all misrepresentations are smokescreens
for political
