Rob and Tom discuss the pros and cons of different voting systems, electoral systems and voter turnout.

Topics

• Voting Systems

  • First Past the Post

  • Alternative Vote

  • Proportional Representation

    • Single Transferable Vote

    • D’Hondt Formula

    • Hare and Droop

• Electoral Systems

• Voter Turnout

• UK Voting Reform

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Shownotes

• Types of Voting System

• YouTube - Politics in the Animal Kingdom

• Wikipedia - London Mayoral Elections

• Wikipedia - D’Hondt Method

• YouTube - D’Hondt with Jeremy Vine

• Wikipedia - Hare and Droop Comparison

• Parliament.uk - Turnout at Elections

• Pew Research - U.S. trails most developed countries in voter turnout

• Amazon: Comparing Democracies

• Wikipedia - Democracy Sausage

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Attribution

• Recording engineer: Craig

• Theme song: Handel's Water Music (Public Domain under CC0 1.0) with Big Ben Chimes (By hyderpotter under CC0 1.0).

• Main Image: Voting Screen - Cartoon by DonkeyHotey [CC by A 2.0]