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    5 days ago

    This was intended before the mission. After conducting observations they were going to propose naming two craters. One for his wife, and the other for the space craft “Integrity”. The final approval is going to have to be from the International Astronomical Union (IAU) as they control the naming of all celestial bodies and geographic features on them.







  • It resulted in voters receiving a ballot paper asking them to rank over a dozen candidates and the response to this by voters was quite negative because they felt that the process of intelligently researching and comparing that many candidates was unnecessarily laborious and people found the electoral system confusing.

    I doubt that was really the public speaking. It’ll be politically active people who fear the change. People just need it explained to them a couple of times.

    Ranking 12 people is well within most people’s grasp when parties are also involved. Most know their preference of paries, so that gives you gross blocking and then if you have particular knowledge of individuals you can apply it. The main thing is to make it clear they are voting for N winners.

    You need to have randomised ballot order though. If somebody is just voting along party lines they will write 1-2-3 down the page for that party. If everyone does this it skews things.


  • That’s a separate question.

    STV with a single winner is like holding multiple elections where the biggest loser gets eliminated each round. You can vote for your favourite uncle first, because you’d really like him to win, but because you’ve put other people at 2, 3 and 4 you still get a say who wins even though your uncle only got 7 votes. Your Single Vote gets Transferred to your next preference when he’s eliminated.

    STV with multiple winners is the same but you stop eliminating people when you’re down to however many you need.


  • STV with multi-member constituencies.

    • No ranked list of party members that parties can put their best buds at the top of. All candidates are equal, party affiliated or not.
    • Ranked voting system, so people can express their preference with no need for tactical voting.
    • All takes place with a single vote.
    • Members of the public will have a choice of representative when raising concerns with them. Better chance of talking to someone who simpathises with your issue.
    • It’s still representation on a local scale.
    • Whilst it’s still an approximation to full PR the margin of error compared to FPTP is massively reduced.

    I think it gets discarded because “it’s still not PR” but I think the advantages outweigh this.