The Alternative Vote Explained

[danw]

I desperately need this in America, I hate strategic voting for the lesser of the two evils.

[solocitizen]

I'd vote for Queen Lion. She seems to always know what's up. 

[thelongslowgoodbye]

This is how we vote here in Australia. I do like how it's a Wallaby that gives the clever idea ^_^

[KingJaredoftheLand]

Like that a wallaby was the one to suggest Alternative Vote.. little nod to Australia's preferential voting system.

[jamescuttell]

In the UK there was a referendum about the alternative vote, sadly only the people that were against it bothered to vote

[mickys]

I remember watching the BBC talking about the last british election and they interviewed a few people and one guy was like "yeah I voted for this party" and the interviewer asked "oh, what made you vote for them?" and he went "oh, i dont agree with them, but i hate the other party and dont want them incharge" and the interviewer then acted shocked like the guy had revolutionised first past the post voting

[Retrosicotte]

I cannot, absolutely cannot, believe us in the UK didn't vote to use AV in future.

When we had the choice between AV and FPTP...the public chose to keep First Past the Post, just because they believed a damn marketing campaign by the two parties that WANT a two party system.

It's the greatest failing in British democracy of the modern age to not adjust to this...

[Jay-Niner]

Squirrels voting for Owls? Preposterous!

[Formulka]

The problem is that either gorilla or leopard are always in power so they will never allow alternative vote.

[stephh]

I wish the U.S. could adopt a system like this...

[janAlekantuwa]

Question 5 on the ballot of my state (Maine, USA) is to implement the Alternative Vote for all elected offices except the President. You can bet I voted Yes in a heartbeat.

[socialist-strong]

Alternative vote also allows small parties to actually get some votes, because no one says "they won't win, so I won't vote for them". I know this is partially covered in the spoiler effect, but this is a little different.

[elliottmcollins]

The slurring in this video is amazing. He's gotten so much clearer.

[Pheenixm]

This man truly predicted the rise of Harambe

[samotten]

Why did people vote no to AV in the UK? I can only assume it's because we're idiots who are afraid of progress. Well done electorate, I was about 11 at the time of the referendum and I understood why AV is superior.

[SunBleachedGhost]

Man, coming back to these videos after so many years is crazy, these are like, what first started making me think about politics as a kid, they still do a great job of educating too, the one on First Past The Post voting does an excellent job of explaining what's wrong with America's current voting problem

[jrswab]

The United States citizens need to understand this. It could help cure some of our apathy.

[Writermist]

This is actually pretty good. Why don't we have this system?

[aestheticmemelord]

Everyone: "Wow Both Trump and Hillary suck..."
Me: "Have you considered voting independent?"
Everyone: "It would be a wasted vote, he/she wouldn't win"

If we used this voting system we could effectively #MakeAmericaGreatAgain

[baumaeyn]

In a student-organization at my university we were distatisfied with our voting system for new members and I came up with something that was pretty much like this. I now feel reassured I did a good job ^^