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Thread #121399   Message #2650287
Posted By: Little Hawk
06-Jun-09 - 08:52 PM
Thread Name: BS: Cllr still Cllr
Subject: RE: BS: Cllr still Cllr
You should introduce a voting system that works this way: You vote for all the candidates in your riding, BUT you indicate each in your order of preference. You choose #1, #2, #3, #4 and so on. The computers tally up the votes, including everyone's second, third, fourth, etc choices. If no one party gets a clear majority, then the party with the least votes in your riding drops off the count, and the computer again adds up the votes of the remaining parties and keeps at it until one of them wins with a clear majority. That one then wins the riding.

This will far more accurately indicate the will of the people than simply giving the riding to the "first one past the post". The first one past the post will NOT necessarily win a majority of the votes if it's done this way...specially if you have, say, a single rightist Party running against two or three leftist parties or vice versa. In that case the single party to one side will lose...as it should.

In the case of "first past the post" it will win, despite having the backing of a minority of the voters.