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2010-11-18

Get rid of the two-party preferred voting system

Comments on Greg Sheridan “Baillieu shows guts on Greens”, 18/11/2010, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/baillieu-shows-guts-on-greens/story-e6frg6zo-1225955203217
The issues associated with preferences reflect the shortcoming of the current voting system.

There should not be a two-party preferred voting outcome. It should be left with the most voted party to be given the right to govern, as opposed the one based on a strange two party preferred winner.

To prevent the system to be too fragmented, there should be some rules on what party or independent can enter into an election based on certain minimum numbers.

If in the end, some extreme left or right are elected on their own rights but not on preferences, so be it. That is what our democracy is about and we should not complain it whether we like it or not.

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