Paul Murray has an attack on the Greens party 20Jul). I didn't bother reading his detailed, probably correct, analysis of preference votes. Yes, compulsory preferential voting is -- in practice -- ridiculous.
But...
Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper
Agamedes Consulting / Problems? Solved.
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A win by a micro candidate is not, as Murray claims, "the fault of voters themselves". It is the result of deliberate candidate confusion.
Confusion when parties deliberately stuff the ballot paper with a hundred not-a-hope candidates. I know that I lost count before I reached ninety.
Voting "above the line" allows for secret deals between vote-swapping nut-parties. More wasted, unthinking, votes.
Optional preferential voting gets my vote: count only as far as you want. Vote only for the first few of your preferred candidates -- those you have actually heard about.
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What about the Greens?
There is no longer anything "green" about them.
Murray labels them as "radical Marxist", I have no idea. What I do see is that they support a range of extreme, crazy, ideas.
Worse -- they have abandoned democracy in favour of violence, physical attack (on property, so far) and verbal insults.
It makes the two major parties seem almost sane by comparison.
Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper
Agamedes Consulting / Problems? Solved.
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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood
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