Gavin should realistically be included in the spoiled vote. Every single person that voted for him knew it was a non-valid vote. Don’t fall into the medias version of it, it was as much a valid protest vote as spoiling the vote by other means. That’s my main criticism of this.
AsanteSane on
So adding up Humphries, Gavin and the Spoiled votes still Connolly would have won in a landslide, hope she does a solid job now like her predecessor.
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I think for a more accurate picture of the State of the nation you also need to make a chart including the 55% of the electoral register who weren’t arsed voting for either candidate, gavin *or* spoiling their votes.
Also bear in mind that 1%of votes are spoiled in every election purely due to error. Not every spoiled vote is a protest.
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Voted for CC as the least worst option out a choice of 2. Voting for Gavin meant nothing other than making some people feel better about themselves by thinking it mattered somehow. Spoiling your vote meant nothing to the outcome but might have made some people feel better in the hope it sent a message to the political establishment that they were unhappy.
So in short, I wonder how many people went for CC as the least worst option open to them and how that distorted the result?
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Gavin should realistically be included in the spoiled vote. Every single person that voted for him knew it was a non-valid vote. Don’t fall into the medias version of it, it was as much a valid protest vote as spoiling the vote by other means. That’s my main criticism of this.
So adding up Humphries, Gavin and the Spoiled votes still Connolly would have won in a landslide, hope she does a solid job now like her predecessor.
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I think for a more accurate picture of the State of the nation you also need to make a chart including the 55% of the electoral register who weren’t arsed voting for either candidate, gavin *or* spoiling their votes.
Also bear in mind that 1%of votes are spoiled in every election purely due to error. Not every spoiled vote is a protest.
Voted for CC as the least worst option out a choice of 2. Voting for Gavin meant nothing other than making some people feel better about themselves by thinking it mattered somehow. Spoiling your vote meant nothing to the outcome but might have made some people feel better in the hope it sent a message to the political establishment that they were unhappy.
So in short, I wonder how many people went for CC as the least worst option open to them and how that distorted the result?