The Alternative Vote Explained
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Queen Lion of the Animal Kingdom is displeased. She recently introduced elections for theoffice of king using the first post the post voting system.While her Realm started out as a healthy democracy with many parties running candidates for king,it quickly devolved into two party rule, with the citizens not liking either one but trappedwithin the system because of a problem called the spoiler effect.However, one of Queen Lion’s subjects from a distant land, Wallaby, has a solution: TheAlternative Vote. What’s the difference?To find out, lets follow one voter on election day, Red Squirrel, under both systems.There are five candidates running for king, two members of the big parties Gorilla andLeopard and three other candidates, Turtle, Owl and Tiger.Under first-past-...
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Queen Lion of the Animal Kingdom is displeased. She recently introduced elections for theoffice of king using the first post the post voting system.While her Realm started out as a healthy democracy with many parties running candidates for king,it quickly devolved into two party rule, with the citizens not liking either one but trappedwithin the system because of a problem called the spoiler effect.However, one of Queen Lion’s subjects from a distant land, Wallaby, has a solution: TheAlternative Vote. What’s the difference?To find out, lets follow one voter on election day, Red Squirrel, under both systems.There are five candidates running for king, two members of the big parties Gorilla andLeopard and three other candidates, Turtle, Owl and Tiger.Under first-past-...
