Yes! One of the drawbacks of large STV constituencies is the reduced opportunity for that sort of thing. It is something that the Americans make more of, in part because of the way their State bounda… (View Post)

These numbers are very important to watch when it comes to the count of the vote, as one PBer did with some success for PA at the last election. (View Post)

Perhaps some dodgy rounding has been applied. But, if 40% of the electorate vote early, and the overall turnout is 60%, then only 1-in-3 of registered voters who didn't vote early actually vote … (View Post)

A vote in the ballot box is worth two that haven't been cast yet. It reduces the number of people you have to chivvy to the polling booth on election day. (View Post)

The original motivation for Black History Month was precisely to teach the less well known history of black people in order to dispel the lazy stereotypes, not to create an opportunity to reinforce t… (View Post)