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Most of your Australian countrymen want to get rid of ranked voting. http://scorevoting.net/WhatVotersWant http://scorevoting.net/WhatVotersWant Maybe they th

• kirrent 10y ago
  The mentioned discussion by Antony Green: http://blogs.abc.net.au/antonygreen/2011/02/more-australian-surveys-of-the-preferred-voting-system.html http://blogs.abc.net.au/antonygreen/2011/02/more-australian-... I think his points are pretty good ones. There was a lot of anger and unhappiness after the 2010 election and the role preferences played in it. I'm not going to change my mind entirely on one poll which hasn't ever been repeated when there are valid objections to the question and the signal isn't even that large. You could have polled people on if the electoral college should be gotten rid of after the last US election and you'd probably get a similar sort of polarised answer for the same reasons. More importantly, I don't really care about what people prefer in their voting system. That probably sounds bad, and I think it's important that people trust it but it's a technical answer to the question of how we discover what people want. That's what I care about, which is why I support compulsory voting which ensures a more representative government at the cost of forcing everyone on the rolls to vote. I'm also not some weird person who thinks we have it perfect here. Obviously optional preferential voting in all cases would be better, not just for the federal senate, and Hare-Clark nationwide would be even cooler than that. There's always improvements to be made.