[EM] Did you want anchovies with your election?

[Richard Fobes]

 From a Canadian blog post at http://edges.canadahomepage.net/2012/11/ 
-- written by Jim Taylor -- here is an interesting metaphor that 
demonstrates why plurality voting is so unfair:

> There’s these five guys, see. They’re short on cash, so they pool their resources to buy a pizza. They can only afford one topping.
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> Two of the guys love anchovies. The other three hate anchovies, but can’t agree on pepperoni, ham, or mushrooms.
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> Guess what – everyone gets anchovies.
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> That, in a pizza shell, is our electoral system. It goes by various names – winner take all, first past the post, plurality… Whoever has the most votes wins the election.
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> Which sounds as though it makes sense. Unless you’re allergic to anchovies.