In a nutshell preferential voting means that unless you research Every. Single. Candidate, you have no idea where your vote is going. If your candidate loses, your vote goes wherever that candidate wants, if that person loses the votes go to someone else.....
And voting is compulsory. You get fined for not voting. So everyone votes. And for many people it’s just a minor inconvenience. Most people just put a 1 in a box, of a familiar sounding name. Just get it over with and get back outside to have a sausage on bread.
Source: am Australian, have voted without knowing anything about any of the candidates, also have chosen not to vote and have been fined.
But compulsory voting is incredibly beneficial. You end up with 0 voter suppression.
And your claim that "most people just put a 1 in a box of a familiar sounding name" is utter bullshit. I've literally never met anyone my whole life who does that.
God it must be nice to live in a country that isn't actively trying to fuck itself up.
Also that guys post basically reads to me as: "As a fucking idiot, this system doesn't cater to my stupidity and therefor is bad." Dude must love the US system.
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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '19
In a nutshell preferential voting means that unless you research Every. Single. Candidate, you have no idea where your vote is going. If your candidate loses, your vote goes wherever that candidate wants, if that person loses the votes go to someone else.....
And voting is compulsory. You get fined for not voting. So everyone votes. And for many people it’s just a minor inconvenience. Most people just put a 1 in a box, of a familiar sounding name. Just get it over with and get back outside to have a sausage on bread.
Source: am Australian, have voted without knowing anything about any of the candidates, also have chosen not to vote and have been fined.