| > Can someone enlighten me as to how this achieves anything, other than a count of people who abstained? That in itself is quite useful. At the moment, anyone who doesn't vote generally falls into one of two categories: 1) I don't care 2) I don't want any of them Having some way of explicitly saying "I care, but have no confidence in any of you" can be quite powerful. If it wasn't, votes of no confidence wouldn't mean anything. > Saying on record 'i want reform', or 'i don't like the old system' does not achieve anything Only when people agree that the old system has problems. If all the parties think it's fine and they think their constituents are happy with it then a significant voice saying "No, we're not" is important, even when there's no plan. If people agree that there are issues then yes, it's pointless. You don't need to form a party for this however, you can spoil your ballot paper, that has to be counted. Unfortunately, due to misinformation (IMO) the plan to reform the voting system failed. I think that would really have helped. |
I'm ambivalent about it. I'm Norwegian, so can't vote here anyway, but my feeling, partly because of seeing the Norwegian system, I think that while the proposed system would've been a big step forward, it was also a quite poor stopgap measure, and if it had succeeded it would likely have killed the voting system debate for the next 50 years as anyone trying to lobby for further reform would have just been met with "but we already did enough".