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Reply #75 - Oct 10th, 2008 at 9:00pm
 
freediver wrote on Oct 10th, 2008 at 4:25pm:
A minor candidate will get eliminated at some stage. To the extent that they are similar to another major candidate, the people who voted for the minor candidate will rank that major candidate above more dissimilar ones. So the votes will go to that major candidate before he gets eliminated, rather than to a candidate with dissimilar views. Hence preferential voting cannot lead to a minor candidate causing the election of a dissimilar major candidate.


That's the theory and like any theory it holds true for certain set of conditions or to be more specific in this case when voter is not confused. However when number of minor parties reaches critical proportion like it was in 1999 NSW election a voter's mental concentration breaks down and his/her action become random rather then purposeful. That is well known psychological effect. BTW, golden rule of web page design is to never exceed 12 meaningful objects on one page if you want to keep user's attention comes from the same psychological phenomenon.

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Reply #76 - Oct 10th, 2008 at 9:49pm
 
This psychological phenomenon, is it called the spoiler effect?
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Reply #77 - Oct 10th, 2008 at 10:57pm
 
freediver wrote on Oct 10th, 2008 at 9:49pm:
This psychological phenomenon, is it called the spoiler effect?


No and it isn't called FPTP either just as PV isn't called guarantee against the spoiler effect.
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