'If a candidate receives a majority of first-preference votes (more people put them as number one than all the rest combined), then they are elected.'
If you have to explain to your voters what a majority is, then you're onto a loser there....
(If you have to explain to your voters what a majority is, then you're onto a loser there....
Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!,
Fri 15 Apr 2011, 1:41,
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To be fairVery few people know WTF "plurality" means, so use "majority" to mean "more than anyone else". Hence why someone had to invent the entirely pointless term "overall majority".
Putting it like that also avoids talking about the 50% "line", which people keep referencing to make it sound simpler, but is actually really confusing when you ask "50% of what?"
Shit, does this mean I'm defending not only the BNP, but the No2AV campaign? Erm... YEAH, TOSSERS!
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Sat 16 Apr 2011, 20:47,
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Putting it like that also avoids talking about the 50% "line", which people keep referencing to make it sound simpler, but is actually really confusing when you ask "50% of what?"
Shit, does this mean I'm defending not only the BNP, but the No2AV campaign? Erm... YEAH, TOSSERS!