[EM] Another article on the Australian controversy

David Catchpole s349436 at student.uq.edu.au
Wed Dec 6 23:19:52 PST 2000


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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