Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Dec 14
th, 2020 at 11:24pm:
Never trust anything a government wants to do - it is invariably to favour them or their personal mates - and the 'side' of politics makes no difference.
It is almost always never to do good for the majority population, as their position requires them to do.... they don't see their position as service to the nation and people - they see it as control over that nation and its people to suit themselves and their party and ensure they are overfed forever.
Voluntary preferential voting is good - I would expect most to say No Preference From MY Vote - if they don't they are so dumb I give up on them...
I vote for Independents these days and I don't want my vote to end up with anyone that I oppose - and I oppose all parties these days for reasons both personal and of principle.
Betray me once - fool me.
Betray me twice - far greater fool you.
For who, exactly?
I'll admit, I mistook "voluntary preferential" for "non-compulsory", so I stuffed up there.
That said, the idea of "voluntary preferential" voting is to "encourage" people to tick as few boxes as possible, and let "preference deals" ensure certain outcomes are met.
From a discussion on the S.A Government's push to introduce voluntary preferential voting...
Quote:"Optional preferential voting would mean that votes would be counted as long as there was a single ‘1’, even if there were no further preferences. Voters would still be able to mark preferences, but they would not be necessary for their vote to count. OPV is used to elect the New South Wales lower house, and has been used until recently in Queensland and the Northern Territory.
There are principled arguments in favour of OPV, but you can’t look past the political self-interest that motivates the Liberals to propose this change.
Under OPV, preferences are less likely to flow, and this tends to favour the candidate who is leading on primary votes. It’s harder to overtake a leading candidate when some preferences exhaust, and reduce the pool of preferences.
Labor tends to do better under CPV, primarily because of Greens preferences. Most Greens preferences flow to Labor when they are required to mark preferences, but a lot of Greens voters instead choose to exhaust when that’s an option.
Antony Green also points out that, in the South Australian context, compulsory preferences have helped independents win seats off the Liberals, usually with the benefit of Labor preferences. Of the 26 contests in South Australia since 1982 where a candidate trailing on primary votes went on to win, 14 were won by Labor, 11 were won by independents or minor parties, and just one was won by the Liberal Party. A number of those independents went on to support minority Labor governments after the 2002 and 2014 elections."
Voluntary preferential voting wouldn't make a difference to the Mrs and I: We always number each and every box, working backwards from worst to "least worst"...
But plenty of other will just tick the least required number of boxes (probably just the one), and let the preference "machinery" do its work...likely against their best interests.
https://www.tallyroom.com.au/39663