Originally Posted by Jonesy:
Originally Posted by cologne 1:
Originally Posted by Soozy Woo:
Originally Posted by Kaytee:
In any system, be it PR or AV...you are not forced to state your second preference at all. You can just tick your preferred candidate.....if you actually have one that is
Well unless it's explained to me clearly -I'll continue to do that.
As for the referendum I'd really like to know the pros and cons with no spin so that I can make an informed decision.
There's lots of stuff online to get to know about it.
Have just read some of it online and am still no nearer
I need laymans terms.
The Alternative Vote system explained in words of one syllable
This isnât an attempt to plug AV, nor to speculate on what would happen under it, but just to knock down the notion that itâs fiendishly complex.How to voteAnne, Bob, Claire, Doug and Eve all want you to vote for them. So who do you like the most? Pick one (Bob, say) and put a â1â next to their name: thatâs your first choice. Then, pick which of the rest of them youâd like the most if Bob were out of the race (Eve, say) and put a â2â next to their name. Then, pick which of the rest youâd like the most if Bob and Eve were out of the race â and so on.
You can go all the way and put â1â, â2â, â3â, â4â and â5â next to each name, or you can stop at the point where you donât have a view on which of the rest is best. You can just put â1â and leave at it that, if you donât care for the rest of them at all. Then youâre done.
How to count the votes to see who winsWe put all the votes that mark Anne as the first choice in a pile. And then the ones for Bob and Claire and so on. If one of them has more than half the votes, they win.
If not, then the one placed last (say itâs Bob) gets knocked out and we move to round two. Round two, at root, asks: âWho do you like the most out of Anne, Claire, Doug and Eve?â
We look at all the votes from Bobâs pile to see whoâs the next choice on each. If you marked Bob â1â and left it at that, then youâve said you have no view on the rest of them, so your vote gets put to the side. If you marked, say, Eve â2â, your vote goes on her pile. We move all the Bob votes that do have a â2â marked to the piles for Anne, Claire, Doug or Eve. The votes these four had from round one still count this time, of course: those who cast them still have the same first choice in a race with no Bob.
And if one of them has more than half the votes, they win.
If not, we do the same thing: say Anne is last this time. She gets knocked out and for round three the votes in her pile get moved to Bobâs, Claireâs and Eveâs piles, as marked. And if one of these three has more than half the votes, they win. If not, we knock out the one placed last and go to round four, in the same way. When we get to the point where one of them has more than half the votes, they win. And thatâs that.