Following the success of their video explaining the problems with first past the post, the animals are back – this time to explain how the Alternative Vote works:
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Try out the Alternative Vote for yourself with my Facebook app (no animals I’m afraid although you could run a poll on animals if you want!):
Search for “Alternative Vote” on Facebook and select “apps”.
It lets you create and vote on polls using the Alternative Vote.
Barnaby (app creator)
“it quickly devolved into two party rule with citizens not liking either one”
really? there might be some people that don’t like either one, but the statement as read is grossly incorrect, and the results that will AV will produce are not more likely to produce a greater number of voters who get the candidate they want, rather they will just increase the chance of locking out the candidate the don’t. same problem, no?
@Jedibeeftrix
Watch his first video on FPTP – the one above is a sequel.
i did. 🙂
Neat, but you complete overlook the tactaical voting also inherent in the AV system.
Such as the tiger voters who tactically vote gorilla to stop it getting eliminated before owl.
which, if too many Tiger voters do this, would backfire by actually getting Gorilla elected, or at least deprive Tiger of enough votes such that Tiger would be eliminated instead of winning.
Tactical voting under AV is too risky to justify any gain. Under FPTP there is simply not an issue of “too many” people voting tactically: the lower the spoiler vote, the better. Under AV a successful tactical voting campaign would require the sort of detailed knowledge of voting patterns that are only available after the count.