Voting experts unanimously reject first past the post
The London School of Economics reports:
22 voting theory specialists voted to select the “best voting procedure” to elect one out of three or more candidates.
Each voter chose from a list of 18 nominated voting procedures as many as she/he approved of. From a possible maximum of 22 votes, First Past The Post (FPTP) – also known as Plurality Voting – received no votes. Approval Voting won the contest with 15 votes. The Alternative Vote (AV) took second place with 10 votes.
Meanwhile the Yes To Fairer Votes campaign has released a new campaign video:
Voting experts unanimously reject first past the post | Mark Pack http://bit.ly/gX9lvW
Yes, all you little twitter monkeys on the Yes side are now twittering this far and wide, but look at what they chose as the first choice…Approval Voting which is used by how many countries….ZERO.
It’s used by a few (and i mean few) associations and such, but many of them are now moving away from it.
That is how much credibility i give your ‘voting specialists’. Maybe they should emerge from the hallowed halls of Higher Education for a moment and join the real world!