Sentences with phrase «voter preferences because»

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Similarly, the power of Google's search algorithm to surreptitiously shift voting preferences of undecided voters by 20 - 80 percent is highly troubling — and not only because it could potentially threaten the basic principles of democracy.

Ultimately the government will have to choose between large numbers of voters choosing pre-determined preference orderings by voting above the line or large numbers of voters having their preferences ignored because they did not express them properly on the ballot paper.

Vote splitting most easily occurs in plurality voting because the ballots don't gather any information about the secondary preferences of the voters.

A: No mystery; because the Conservative Party is traditionally the second choice of relatively few voters and they therefore wish to count weak second preferences as on a par with strong first preferences.

Although it is not regarded as truly proportional by campaigners for electoral reform, AV is favoured by some because it maintains the constituency link, ensures elected MPs have the support of at least 50 per cent of voters and allows supporters of minority parties to express opinion through their first vote while giving their second preference to a mainstream party.

Things are complicated because individual voters do not just have a general party - preference vote that will decide this overall make up of the parliament, but also vote for a personal representative to represent their local constituency.

It will legitimise them because in marginal seats Labour will have to chase the second preferences of UKIP / BNP voters.

Then we are told that it will somehow make MPs more accountable and more diligent, because they will all be obliged to get the combined first and second - preference support of 50 per cent of the voters.

It is said that the Liberal Democrats will do well out of the change because their candidates are normally the second choice of Labour and Tory voters and therefore, since AV counts second preferences, more of them will be elected.

Yet Labour are fearful of Goldsmith's ability to reach out to Lib Dem and Green voters because of his opposition to a third runway at Heathrow, especially after former Green mayoral candidate Baroness Jenny Jones appeared to endorse a second preference for Goldsmith earlier this year.

Its better because it doesn't transfer the power that it does to the second preferences of smaller party voters (a numerically small group) in an democratically unaccountable way.

The main reason smaller parties don't win more seats is because potential voters don't expect them to get enough votes and would rather choose a second preference over a third or lower preference.

Larger Party voters will be wasting their time casting any more preferences than their first (which also gives the lie to the myth it will «encourage» them to support smaller parties; it simply wont because their first choice will not be eliminated therefore this support will be as non-existant as it was under FPTP).

Because of the importance of the election and the familiarity of voters with the candidates, polls tend to measure actual voter preferences throughout the campaign.

This is because almost two in three Labour voters would have given their second preferences to the Lib Dems in Conservative - Lib Dem contests, while Lib Dem supporters preferred Labour rather than the Tories by a margin of three - to - two in Lab - Con seats.

Because few voters turn out for primaries, a tiny number of voters supporting a radical candidate in a «safe» district can end - run around general voters» preferences.

Now Facebook is the hot new political consultant because it controls all the valuable data about voter preferences and behavior.