An aside: Voting in London
In Australia, the voting system uses Instant runoff voting to determine the winner. I use this method to start with the people I dislike or think are completely useless, and end up with the candidate I hate the least.
Now while the system in place for the election of London's mayor is probably better than "first past the post", it is a real shame that full preferential voting isn't used instead as no matter what your views, this election boils down to choice between Boris and Ken.
There are candidates I think would do a far worse job than either Boris or Ken (UKIP, Christian Peoples), and there are the less marginal candidates (Liberal Democrats, Green) who might have a chance if this wasn't such a clear Labour / Conservative battle. I would have liked to have slightly more of a choice in this matter.
Also, as an Australian voter, I almost put numbers in the boxes, instead of big 'X' marks.
Now while the system in place for the election of London's mayor is probably better than "first past the post", it is a real shame that full preferential voting isn't used instead as no matter what your views, this election boils down to choice between Boris and Ken.
There are candidates I think would do a far worse job than either Boris or Ken (UKIP, Christian Peoples), and there are the less marginal candidates (Liberal Democrats, Green) who might have a chance if this wasn't such a clear Labour / Conservative battle. I would have liked to have slightly more of a choice in this matter.
Also, as an Australian voter, I almost put numbers in the boxes, instead of big 'X' marks.