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...

Comments

Re: AV can mean voting against your party

[1st-law.livejournal.com]

I think the size of the block needs to be vote difference between the 2nd and 3rd party plus one. Obviously plus chess's requirement that you have to broadly know the 2nd choices of the people in the 2nd and 3rd parties.

Re: AV can mean voting against your party

[passage.livejournal.com]

I agree. The comparison point in FPTP is a block the size of the difference between the 1st and 2nd parties + 1 and knowledge of which the top 2 parties will be.