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[Blue Maniac]

Your example only works by ensuring that only the coffee voters give a single preference.

What happens if they all pick milkshake as second choice?

 

[Jeff]

What happens if they all pick milkshake as second choice?

Then they're idiots and shouldn't be allowed to vote.

 

[Blue Maniac]

Then they're idiots and shouldn't be allowed to vote.

:icon_lol:

 

[Macky]

What happens if they all pick milkshake as second choice?

:icon_bigg It would got to third preferences.... in this ridiculously small sample of eight people

I refer the honourable gentleman to the reply I gave some time ago

The point is that FPTP is only a fair and representative system when there are only two possible candidates.

 

[beaumontfox]

Depends on the flavour milkshake surely?

Can't we have 'sub candidates' to see which milkshake goes forward in the vote v all the others?

 

[beaumontfox]

What happens if only half put a third preference?

 

[Blue Maniac]

I refer the honourable gentleman to the reply I gave some time ago

I noticed your assertion but didn't see your explanation...

 

[Macky]

I noticed your assertion but didn't see your explanation...

It's unlike you not to pay attention but, in case you missed it, 3 out of 8 votes isn't a majority

 

[beaumontfox]

Neither is being second 3 times out of the eight for example( say beer has 3 seconds and coffee only 1.)

 

[Blue Maniac]

It's unlike you not to pay attention but, in case you missed it, 3 out of 8 votes isn't a majority

And 2 out of 8 is even less of one!

 

[Macky]

Neither is being second 3 times out of the eight for example( say beer has 3 seconds and coffee only 1.)

There is no perfect system. The example just illustrates that where there is more than two candidates in any poll, AV is more representative than FPTP

 

[Macky]

And 2 out of 8 is even less of one!

*sigh*
There is no perfect system. The example just illustrates that where there is more than two candidates in any poll, AV is more representative than FPTP

 

[Blue Maniac]

*sigh*
There is no perfect system. The example just illustrates that where there is more than two candidates in any poll, AV is more representative than FPTP

:icon_lol: What if...

 

[GazLCFC]

Why didnt they just ask the question "do you want beer or coffee"

Then when the beer voters got the nod then say to which pub?

In the broadcast this is taken from that is what happens. The majority want to go for beer, but they all want to go to different pubs. So in the end they go for coffee. Takes bloody ages to decide.

 

[fitz]

I want a beer but am having to settle for a coffee as there are no beers in my fridge. What the **** does that mean I am supposed to vote for?

 

[Blue Maniac]

I want a beer but am having to settle for a coffee as there are no beers in my fridge. What the **** does that mean I am supposed to vote for?

UKIP.

 

[spionfox]

Maybe if 'none of the above' was included as an option, politicians would start to understand what people really think of them and their antics.

Not the Nine O'Clock News did that 25 years ago with their 'Vote NOT' campaign :icon_lol:

 

[spionfox]

there is little they can do to express there disapproval.

Not like you Bob :icon_bigg

 

[bocadillo]

Not like you Bob :icon_bigg

Not like you, Paul, to not notice that Maniac has already pulled me up on it.

 

[spionfox]

Not like you, Paul, to not notice that Maniac has already pulled me up on it.

I did notice but a mistake by you is so rare that it is surely worth identifying more than once :icon_wink