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[naath]

Today we got to vote for pointless PCCs... I think the whole thing is a thoroughly stupid idea but I voted anyway on the theory that it was better to vote against the racists than to spoil my ballot on the theory that the whole thing is a pointless waste of time.

Also I think supplementary vote might be the stupidist voting system of all time. I think everything about this election sucks.

At least there wasn't a queue for voting.

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[chess]

I was using 'tactical voting' as a shorthand for 'the most common form and useful form of tactical voting, which you basically waste your vote without in FPTP', not 'all kinds of tactical voting ever'.

I believe you get much better results (from a single voter's perspective) from AV (and even from SV, although tactics are more effective there than in 'proper' STV or AV) by just inputting your actual preferences than you do from FPTP, such that most people would not really need to worry about the fact that you could theoretically game the system if you tried really hard and knew a lot about other people's voting patterns.