[EM] Australia: MP says donation row highlights voting problems

[Markus Schulze]

Dear Craig Layton,
dear David Catchpole,

Rob wrote (1 Dec 2000):
> An Australian MP is claiming that it may be time to rethink preference
> voting, adopting a first-past-the-post system instead, because how-to-vote
> tickets improperly influence voting behavior.

Do how-to-vote campaigns have such a big influence for the elections to the
lower house of Australia? I have read many papers about the big influence
of how-to-vote campaigns under proportional representation by the single
transferable vote. But I have never read papers discussing the influence
of such campaigns under Alternative Voting.

Markus Schulze