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Thursday, November 30
Step 1: Every member of the PC Association of Alberta votes, putting a one beside their first choice and a two beside their second choice.
Step 2: All of the first choices of voters will be counted up. If 50% + 1 of the first choices are for a single candidate, he wins and is the new leader and Premier-designate. If not, proceed to step three.
Step 3: The "third" ballot - the person who came in third on the second ballot falls off the ballot, and his supporters' second place votes will be distributed between the top two candidates. Who ever has more votes between the two remaining candidates wins and is the new leader and Premier-designate.
So essentially, so long as someone doesn't get more votes than their two opponents combined on the second ballot all that matters is the second place votes of the candidate in third place.
The beauty of the system is that you can vote for your very favourite choice of the three as your first choice and save your second choice as your insurance vote. So let's say you think Ed is the best choice, but more importantly don't agree with Dr. Morton's platform and want to make sure he isn't Premier. You would then vote Ed-Jim, because if Ed doesn't make the final two, your vote counts against Dr. Morton just as much as if you voted Jim as your first choice. Same with the other permutations, Jim-Ed, Ed-Ted or Ted-Ed. I suppose Jim-Ted or Ted-Jim would also work, but I get the impression not many people are anti-Ed.
Next Saturday, 9am to 7pm. You can buy a membership all the way up to 6:59pm. posted by Duncan @ 8:19 AM
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2 Comments:
At 9:51 PM,
kevin from the country
said…
Is it required to mark a second preference? I've been told by some that they don't plan to. Bad decision, I think, as ken-chapman and enlightenedsavage have pointed out, but permissible, right?
At 1:11 PM,
Allie
said…
Yes, marking only one choice is a valid ballot, as is marking two choices for two different candidates (anything else will be considered spoiled).
If you don't mark a second choice and your first choice doesn't fall in the top two after the count, then essentially your vote counts for nothing.
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