{"id":195,"date":"2011-04-15T20:52:37","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T20:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/?p=195"},"modified":"2011-04-29T07:42:09","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T07:42:09","slug":"my-yes-to-av-masterpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/life\/2011\/04\/my-yes-to-av-masterpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"My &#8220;YES to AV&#8221; masterpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The opinion-polls that show AV and first-past-the-post neck and neck make me sad. AV isn&#8217;t perfect but all its drawbacks (e.g. gerrymandering) apply to FPTP too. AV has the big advantage that tactical voting isn&#8217;t necessary &#8211; a huge drawback in the current system. The main argument against AV &#8220;people who vote for smaller parties get to vote twice&#8221; seems confused or intellectually dishonest.<\/p>\n<p>I drew a beautiful masterpiece that sums up the situation to post to the <a href=\"http:\/\/b3ta.com\/\">b3ta<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/b3ta.com\/challenge\/yesornotoav\/popular\/\">AV image challenge<\/a> but as a new member it turns out I&#8217;m not eligible to post until Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well, it reduces the number of people who will doubt my mental age to the readership of this blog entry&#8230;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/1column.png\" width=\"193\" height=\"972\" title=\"Hmm... works better when XKCD does it\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The opinion-polls that show AV and first-past-the-post neck and neck make me sad. AV isn&#8217;t perfect but all its drawbacks (e.g. gerrymandering) apply to FPTP too. AV has the big advantage that tactical voting isn&#8217;t necessary &#8211; a huge drawback in the current system. The main argument against AV &#8220;people who vote for smaller parties [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}