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hughento
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« Reply #25 on: December 16, 2004, 04:12:24 AM » |
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Preferential voting is way less likely to have an extremist win then approval voting-in preferential voting, you're more likely to get moderates elected, if there is a bias at all.
also, preferential voting allows for voters to vote their beliefs, and therefore vote minor parties, but not waste their vote-thats whay we had something like 20% of the vote for minor parties and independents this election, but all but three seats went to the coalition or the Labor Party-the other three were independents from the country. Peter Andren, centrist/left leaning, Calare NSW; Bob Katter, right wing, Kennedy QLD; Tony Windsor, right wing, New England NSW.
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