Yes To Fairer Votes photo in Cambridge

[chess]

The AV Yes Campaign are doing a photo shoot on Saturday. I can't get to it because I'm at a player event, so I thought I would post about it. Event details and signup at http://tinyurl.com/purplephoto

I suspect if I actually made any commentary on AV I would mostly be preaching to the converted here, but I'm always happy to host a political argument on this or basically any subject if you like :).

The very short version is: I want the AV Yes Campaign to win because it would mean that I never, ever have to deliver any propaganda with the phrase 'two-horse race' or a stupid bar graph showing how Foo Can't Win Here ever again...

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[naath.livejournal.com]

AV minimises the total unhappiness with the result, which some people (such as me) think is a fairer way of deciding what the result should be than the current system, which can give a result a plurality of voters prefer but a majority of voters are unhappy with.

Of course whether one believes this to be "fairer" is a matter of opinion since "fairness" is not completely objective.

A different example illustrating the non-objectiveness of fairness - I have 1000 pounds of money to give away to people, I have 10 people asking for money. I could say "it is fair to give each person 100 pounds", or I could say "it is fair to assess each person's needs and apportion the money according to need"; both options are justifiable as "fair".