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[Anthony O'Neal]

:(

This is sad knews, no matter what the anti-STV fanatics say.  STV had 
flaws, it's still a far better system than FPP.  The anti-STV campaign 
put out a huge misinformation campaign which did nothing but say "Hey 
look at how complicated STV is?  AN ALGORITHM FOR VOTING!  WHY EVEN HAVE 
VOTERS!"  It was stupid, and generations later BC is going to regret 
what they passed up.

Kathy Dopp wrote:
> FYI,
>
> http://www.penmachine.com/2009/05/bc-voters-prefer-lame-status-quo
>
> The voters of BC were intelligent to reject STV because STV's
> inequitable treatment of voters' ballots (counting only some voters'
> 2nd and 3rd choices and not counting the 2nd choices of a large group
> of voters' whose 1st choice loses in the final counting round and not
> counting many voters' 2nd and 3rd choices until after those candidates
> have been eliminated) causes so many undesirable problems including
> electing majority *opposed* candidates and eliminating majority
> favored candidates, nonmonotonicity, eliminating many voters before
> the final counting round, making central counting necessary, making
> the counting complex to do by hand, making auditing the accuracy of
> the results very difficult, etc.
>
>