Nothing that simple.
It's preferential - you vote for all the candidates in preference order -
number them.
Then they keep redistributing the votes of the lesser candidates by preference
order until some has 50%+1
And the upper house is proportional representation - statewide, so the ballot
paper can have a lot of people on it. One infamous example, afterwards called
the 'Bedsheet', had a hundred or so. But with that system you can now opt to
follow a pre-determined line where you vote for a party or individual and
preferences are distributed along their pre-registered choice.
Somehow we manage all that with a paper and pencil - no machinery!
Thus, we don't see an effort to 'get the vote out' as in the UK or US - here
you have volunteers handing out 'how to vote' cards for each candidate at the
booth, showing their preferred preference order.
And there is a lot of bargaining over preferences. beforehand.
The volunteers then turn into scrutineers for each party, making sure that the
manual count at the local level is done fairly.
Got that? :-)
Ballots that have an error are called informals and may count if the voters
intention is clear.
Lazy sods who just number the ballot from top to bottom are called 'donkey'
voters.
You can go into any booth on the day and lodge an 'absentee' vote - or lodge a
postal vote in advance.
Electoral Commission officers go around prisons, hospitals, etc. and organise
voting.
The only out is if you are under 18, mentally incompetent or are serving a
prison term longer than a couple of years.
There'll be an Psephology exam next week.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.soultheft.com
Author/Publisher: The SLR Compendium - http://www.blurb.com/books/3732813
On 19/05/2013, at 2:20 AM, Mike Lazzari wrote:
> Andrew, do you use the "automatic runoff" voting procedure?
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