Yes To Fairer Votes photo in Cambridge

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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...

Comments

Re: AV can mean voting against your party

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Tactical voting always relies on having information about how others are going to vote - hence the bar charts with the dodgy axis.

In this case the information you need is what voters for one party are likely to list as their second choice preference. If AV becomes our voting system I expect a rash of surveys to give us that information. In fact if it does starting a polling company would be a smart move!