We tried voting machines too - once. They 'worked', but then the economy fell over and they sat in storage for a decade and now everyone thinks it's a stupid idea.
FPTP is defective by design. There's no more to it than that. Incidentally, the reason Ireland uses PR-STV is because the British government thought FPTP would give Sinn Fein too much of an advantage a century ago. Oops.
It's just sort of been kept at it since then.
Anyway, the final exit polls are suggesting a three-way tie - which will make for some interesting horsetrading wqhen it comes to forming a Government.
FPTP is defective by design. There's no more to it than that. Incidentally, the reason Ireland uses PR-STV is because the British government thought FPTP would give Sinn Fein too much of an advantage a century ago. Oops.
It's just sort of been kept at it since then.
Anyway, the final exit polls are suggesting a three-way tie - which will make for some interesting horsetrading wqhen it comes to forming a Government.
I love the smell of rotaries in the morning. You know one time, I got to work early, before the rush hour. I walked through the empty carpark, I didn't see one bloody Prius or Golf. And that smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole carpark, smelled like.... ....speed.
One day they're going to ban them.