The Alternative Vote (AV): moving from nominal to ordinal measurement
Wednesday, 04 May 2011
by Paurav Shukla
Tomorrow is a very important day for British citizens when we shall decide our next voting system – labelled as the Alternative Vote (AV). Presently, we use a simple voting system called ‘First past the post’ (FPTP). In this system, the candidate who has won the most amount of votes is the winner. So, lets
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Alternative vote, Approval voting, BBC, First-past-the-post, FPTP, Instant-runoff voting, Plurality voting system, Politics, Voting