Politics – Paurav Shukla

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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