Post #9891

It's a good idea to make sure any new voters are aware how to vote. PR-STV is a simple voting system. Counting the votes gets complicated but that is not the concern of voters. 🔹 Just rank as many or as few candidates as you like in your order of preference: 1, 2, 3... 🔹 Do not write ANYTHING except numbers on the ballot or it will be marked spoiled and discounted. 🔹 If you are only voting for one candidate, DO NOT put an X. Put a 1 beside their name. The creation of PR-STV is credited to Scottish mathematician Thomas Smith and English lawyer Thomas Hare who both sought independently to devise the fairest method to elect public representatives in the mid 1800s. While PR-STV was never adopted across the UK, London was rattled by Sinn Féin's landslide victory in the 1918 general election and wanted to boost the electability of the minority unionist population in Ireland so they passed an act in 1919 replacing FPTP with PR-STV as our voting system. We've continued to use it since. Make use of it.