Thursday, April 21, 2011

Why David Cameron Is A Liar

by Peter Bensley


Here's the full text of Cameron's speech on AV:



…potentially deciding the outcome of an election…


Let's look at a sample AV Election:

First Round: E is eliminated.

■A 22

■B 21

■C 20

■D 19

■E 18

Second Round: D is eliminated.

■A 27

■B 25

■C 24

■D 23

Third Round: B is eliminated.

■A 34

■B 32

■C 34

Fourth Round: A is the winner.

■A 55

■C 45


This is a lie.



First Round: E is eliminated.

■A 22

■B 21

■C 20

■D 19

■E 18

Second Round: B is eliminated.

■A 5

■B 4

■C 24

■D 23

Third Round: A is eliminated.

■A 6

■C 25

■D 25

Fourth Round: C is eliminated. D is the winner.

■C 24

■D 26








Martin said...

I suspect that one result of this sort of deliberate misinformation is popular confusion over the issue. "Don't Know" seems to be a widespread opinion amongst people with no previous interest in Electoral Reform.

This might result in the sort of low turn-out you get for those frequent Irish constitutional referenda. In which case the "No" campaign may well resort to Sinn Fein's 1998 slogan:-

If You Don't Know, Vote No.

Richard Gadsden said...

Not only is this a lie, he's deliberately deceiving by confusing the two meanings of the word "count".

In one sense, some votes really are counted more than others - the physical sheets of paper are counted by the counting staff more times than others. In another, much more important sense, they all count - after all, we can just add-on the number of ballot papers where we know what they are.

Quite a few people I know were confused that the party that came first on first preferences would need to come first on second preferences as well and complained that they couldn't cast their first preference and their second preference for the same person. They had been misled into believing that the second round only involved number 2 votes.