Lord Wreath
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« on: August 10, 2017, 07:48:40 PM » |
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Slightly off-topic but still relevant...
People in the US who rail against the 'unfairness' of the EC really don't know how good their system is. Here in Australia, we use a form of AV which is meant to take into account people's 2nd, 3rd, 4th preferences and so on. While this system has meant that breakaway and third-parties haven't been able to split a major party and give it the the opposition (a la 1912 in the US), it has, despite its alleged 'fairness', resulted in even more PV winners losing the election than in the US!
Since 1919 (the first election with the AV), there have been 38 national elections, 6 of which have resulted in the loser of the PV winning the election (1940, 1954, 1961, 1969, 1990, 1998) - that's a rate of 16%. In the US, there have been 49 elections, 6 of which have resulted in the PV loser winning the election (1824, 1876, 1888, 1960, 2000, 2016) - a rate of 12%.
So this purportedly 'fairer' system we use has actually resulted in more times where the vote winner has lost the election than in the US, which is remarkable given the shorter time that we've used the system (not even 100 years).
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