[EM] Another article on the Australian controversy

[David Catchpole]

You forget that the same abuse would occur for Condorcet, except it would
maybe be more pernicious, because it would involve the larger parties
preferencing amongst each other.

On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Rob Lanphier wrote:

> Another article on the preference for cash hoopla, this one from the
> Sydney Morning Herald:
> http://www.smh.com.au/news/0012/06/national/national9.html
>
> Here's the quote from a Liberal Party member that was dispatched to a
> polling station by party leaders:
>
>      "When I got there, they gave me a T-shirt and how-to-vote cards for
>      one of the independent candidates and sent me to a booth for the
>      day," the member said.
>
>      "I felt bad about it. I don't believe it's fair. I don't believe in
>      preferential voting, not after that experience."
>
> The thing I don't like about this is that Condorcet is just as vulnerable
> to this sort of attack.  I suppose this is a good argument against
> treating IRV as an acceptable "stepping stone" to IRV; the major parties
> still have the power to exploit the system, without truly empowering the
> minor parties.  This in turn creates a situation where people sour on the
> whole concept of preference voting.
>
> Rob Lanphier
> robla at eskimo.com
> http://www.eskimo.com/~robla
>
>

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