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If Clinton, Trump, and Did Not Vote were presidential candidates in 2016 (brilliantmaps.com)
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[-] scarilog@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Also preferential voting means you can actually vote for the candidates you want (you can't 'waste' your vote by voting for someone other than the big two parties like in US), and (afaik) when your do this, and a candidate wins based on your lower preferences, that candidate gets data on what your first preferences were (so e.g. they know that a certain percentage of my voters had a higher preference for this other party, which means next time around I should possibly consider adopting some policy from this other party).

(I might have gotten some details wrong, someone feel free to correct me)

[-] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 3 months ago

Yep. Us Aussies can only waste our vote deliberately. If we want to vote we can number every box. And because we have a single transferable vote we have a lot of boxes, the last senate vote form had more than 40, and you could vote any of them first

And if the rest of your electorate didn't rate your number 1, you might agree on number 2

News reports call out the losers — this party is last, its votes get distributed per the voters' forms and you watch for which bars on the graph grow as the shooters and hunters party (I didn't get to vote in the election where the sun ripened warm tomato party failed to get elected) is excluded. A forty horse race is better than a two horse race

It's also nice to choose your actual preference, even if it isn't popular

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