Alternative alternative voting systems, part two: Approval Voting

I’ve been re-examining one aspect of my critique of the Alternative Vote electoral system of the other week: the extent to which it enables voters to express the full range of their political opinions – one of six criteria against which I’ll be measuring a number of alternative voting systems. In my previous post, I [...]

Clegg gets the blues

It must have been an interesting night in the Clegg household last night! The half-Dutch deputy PM watching the World Cup final with his Spanish wife, and kids with doubtless split loyalties! But as could have been predicted – and, indeed, as was predicted by that noted oracle, Paul the Octopus – the blues got [...]

Germany’s second goal yesterday was offside

Am I the only one to have noticed that Germany’s second goal against Argentina yesterday was offside? I mean Klose was blatantly offside when the ball was laid off to him, as you can tell by looking at the highlights. Has all the world suddenly become Uruguayan so that they’re blind to such things?! That’s [...]

Alternative alternative voting systems: Part One

It seems fitting to begin this series of analyses of alternative voting systems on the day when our half-Dutch Deputy PM has leaked the date of the coalition government’s proposed referendum on replacing the First Past the Post voting system with the Alternative Vote (and is doubtless also celebrating his motherland’s World Cup triumph over [...]