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Re: Image comments for In GOD we trust
Posted by: pulse
Date: 07/07/2016 03:03AM
I can't stand preferential voting.
We primarily have 3 parties to vote for in the area where I live; Liberal, Labour and the Greens.
Results for these 3 are:
GUEST, Owen - Liberal - 25,234 votes (41.17%)
DANBY, Michael - Australian Labor Party - 16,718 votes (27.27%)
HODGINS-MAY, Steph - The Greens - 15,167 votes (24.74%)
Those 3 together are 93.18% of the primary vote.
So of course Michael Danby has been re-elected, because the Greens gave second preferences to Labour.
So the guy with 41% of the vote on his own compared to 27 and 24% loses because they did a deal with each other. It's complete horse shit.
I don't care which party/nominee wins, but do it by majority (or have the first preference votes be worth like 10x the second preferences).
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