October 23, 2016
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October 23, 2016 at 12:14 PM
Stupid system. cant see why the candidate with least votes and eliminated that their votes get a value of 1.
October 23, 2016 at 1:24 PM
The change in voting for the next election hopefully will have voters simply voting for the number of vacancies. i.e 3 vacancies means marking 3 boxes. The Greens and the Liberals are determined to wipe out stooges. The ALP thrives on stooges. They voted against not distributing the preferences with the ballot papers. Fortunately the Greens and Libs have the numbers. Having 40 people standing for ones ward (Wyndham) is beyond ridiculous making a mockery of democracy and an insult to the residents. Partial preferential voting hopefully will be introduced in the LGA review.
October 23, 2016 at 1:30 PM
Following yesterdays opening of envelopes in the 72 postal elections most observers are pretty sure of who will be elected. Robert Doyle is a shoe in for Melbourne mayor and is already claiming victory.
October 24, 2016 at 4:27 PM
So what are most observers sure of here?
October 23, 2016 at 9:01 PM
Sure, looks like Port Phillip is on its way to electing three Green councillors
https://www.vec.vic.gov.au/Results/Council2016/PortPhillipResult.html
October 24, 2016 at 2:00 PM
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October 25, 2016 at 10:36 AM
Anonymous 1 claims the system is stupid, yet all voting systems based on rank preference have their flaws when there are at least 3 candidates and 2 voters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow's_impossibility_theorem
If people’s votes carried no weight when their first “preference” was eliminated you’d have a First-Past-The-Post system. Some countries use it but it is distasteful to have somebody elected based on the whims of a minority.
Proportional voting at least attempts to find the “least worst” candidate(s) from a set of individual rank preferences. All votes count and contribute to the final outcome. If only a single candidate can be elected, then it comes down to a 2PP decision when all other candidates have been eliminated. The weights used for proportional voting are carefully chosen to ensure every vote is fairly weighted for each decision made at every stage of the process.