What's the best way to use your vote to stop Boris?

[littlebabyjesus]

I heard that you don't have to vote for two seperate people and can just vote twice for Ken

Is that correct?

(Goes off to Google it)

Ta

If you've voted 1st pref for someone, voting again for them 2nd pref won't make any difference.

 

[kyser_soze]

but Australia's a parliamentary system (so there's other issues, like your constituency, national politics etc.).

I would point you to the low turnout (in a compulsory voting country) of the recent LG elections in QLD which included voting for a mayor for the Sunshine Coast because the voting system was too complex, and that used an SV system.

 

[christonabike]

I was talking bollocks, as per

From the website

"If you vote for the same candidate for first and second choice, only one vote will be counted. You cannot improve the chances of your chosen candidate by giving them your first and second choice votes."

Doh!

 

[spanglechick]

& if all the ken haters voted boris first......

i suspect they already are.

 

[rutabowa]

really? It was the really stupid kids that got it in ours. Just as well we didn't swap schools, huh?

i think we have a boris fan here

 

[maximilian ping]

jesus wept

i'm sorry, i'm sorry

 

[butchersapron]

i think we have a boris fan here

Really?

 

[rutabowa]

Really?

yes, i really am being slow today

 

[Pieface]

Shit.

Yet again I don't understand voting.

So. If I want to help the greens but stop Boris then I do what?

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Shit.

Yet again I don't understand voting.

So. If I want to help the greens but stop Boris then I do what?

Greens first, Ken second.

 

[rennie]

Whatever you do, just don't vote Boris.

 

[ymu]

Shit.

Yet again I don't understand voting.

So. If I want to help the greens but stop Boris then I do what?

Vote Sian/Ken or Ken/Sian.

Sian/Ken makes your support for the Greens crystal clear, but slightly increases the tiny risk that Ken won't come in the top two in the first round and thus the risk that Boris will win the second. But it's a tiny risk.

Ken/Sian makes it a bit more likely that Ken will get to the second round, but not much. The 2nd pref vote for Sian will technically never be counted, but it will appear in the statistics, so it will still help the Greens make their mark.

Ken is the only candidate that can realistically beat Boris, so if you don't vote for Ken on one of the two votes, you might as well vote for Boris.

 

[bluestreak]

what if i draw a great big "KEN'S NUMBER ONE!!!111 UP BORIS BUM GRRRR LOLOLOL" on my card, Lo Siento? How many extra votes will they give Ken for that?

 

[Pieface]

got it - thanks

 

[rennie]

Ken is the only candidate that can realistically beat Boris, so if you don't vote for Ken on one of the two votes, you might as well vote for Boris.

Exactly.

 

[Lo Siento.]

what if i draw a great big "KEN'S NUMBER ONE!!!111 UP BORIS BUM GRRRR LOLOLOL" on my card, Lo Siento? How many extra votes will they give Ken for that?

if you do that you get a special prize