Explanation of Australia's RCV: https://fairvote.org/ranked-choice-voting-and-australia-s-upcoming-elections-a-primer/ https://fairvote.org/ranked-choice-voting

Explanation of Australia's RCV: https://fairvote.org/ranked-choice-voting-and-australia-s-upcoming-elections-a-primer/ https://fairvote.org/ranked-choice-voting-and-australia-s-up... (although this is from 2013). I think they are doing it wrong. RCV is usually "rank the candidates that you know/care about." In any case, as you say "at least to pretend to have (an opinion)", Australian voters probably just rank the ones they don't know/care about in the order that they appear on the ballot. And since those are probably little-known candidates, it doesn't matter, they aren't getting high votes anyway.