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fordy on 20 March 2013
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Cobretti2 said:

In Australia everyone has to vote and no we do not get blind votes all other the place.

What we do get is however morons thinking that they are voting for the prime minister of this country and not the local person in their electoral area. So it kind of becomes a popularity contest rather than about policies.

There is also a divide in general where blue collar workers vote for Labor and White collar workers vote for Liberals. Then you got the voters who are so pissed of with both parties they vote for the Greens without even reading their OUTRAGEOUS policies. In a nutshell the greens are a hindrance to development as they love trees. Tasmania (at a state level government) is a good place of this when Greens get too many seats they stop development projects and cripple the state.

Finally this country seems to think that fuck this guy has been too long in the job lets vote for the other party kind of thing. By all means vote for the other party if the current one has not delivered on their promises but don't just change your vote for the sake of wanting fresh faces. If they doing a great job you should be voting them back in.

 

We also have peference votes. So the person who actualy gets the most votes may not win their seat as the second person gets the votes from the third person because of preferences.  SO ANNOYING. 

 

That's a big problem here. People will throw away an average government only to find that they voted in a worse government. There areally needs to be some kind of public information session as to what is decreed as tolerable governance.

Preference votes work in that way because that's what they're designed to do. I actually prefer this way to the Americas, where third party candidates don't stand a chance, because of the fear of "throwing your vote away" by voting for them. Of course, preferential leads to buddy-buddy backdoor deals where parties lobby each other for higher rankings in their "how to vote" cards. Once again, if people voted in the preferentials in the way that their opinions deictated, it would be a lot better (funny enough the idiot liberals put the Greens ahead of Labor in the seat of Melbourne, and they won through preferences. Liberal really should have considered that the Greens are more distant to them than Labor in a political ideology standpoint, and not thought "well they don't stand a chance of winning, so let's put them ahead of Labor in our how to vote cards")