Re: [wg-review] co-chair election system

[Bret Busby <bret@clearsol.iinet.net.au>]

DPF wrote:
> 

<snip>

> Preferential voting is not about having a final ranking of candidates.
> It is about ensuring that the winning candidate is the preferred
> choice of a majority of voters.
> 

With all due respect, having seen the democratic system of voting that
used to exist in New Zealand, before it all went wonky, and, was
replaced by the MMP system of eliminating democracy, and, having
witnessed the preferential voting system, as imposed in Australia, to
defeat democracy, the fundamental differeneces are, that first past the
post voting, where the person with the most votes wins, is simply that;
the person, or, idea, that has the most support, wins, and, preferential
voting, means that the least unpopular person or idea, wins.
Preferential voting, also tends to involve shady dealings between
candidates, to form voting "tickets", as a result of shady deals between
candidates. That, and all the defeats of democracy, as inflicted by
preferential voting, I have seen, at the various levels of voting; in
student union elections, local government, state, and, federal
elections.

Basically, it all depends on whether you want democracy, or, not.

If democracy is wanted, or, required, as it should be, then, the simple,
and, only, genuine option, is simple, first past the post voting. Who
gets the most votes, in a single round of voting, wins. All else is a
travesty.

But, then, as it appears that universal suffrage does not exist on this
list, and, as I am not one of the elite, it appears that my opinion does
not count, anyway, so, I suppose, in the absence of democracy, it does
not really matter.

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Bret Busby

Armadale, West Australia

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