Voting Processes
There are four ways in which to vote and they are Personal, Postal, Electronic and By Proxy:
o Personal:
Voting personally means that an individual votes by going to a polling station and filling in a ballot paper that they then put into a ballot box. All voting is done anonymously and therefore each individual votes in separate polling booths. This stops any forestalling and voting intimidation. However, voting personally also takes time and money because staff are needed in order to count the votes.
o Postal:
Voting by post involves the individual filling out a ballot paper and postal voting statement anonymously/ secretly and then posting it off in an envelope. Voting by post means that there is no need to enter a polling …show more content…
As AV needs voters to rank the representatives in order of preference some people may not understand what they have to do, as there is a lot more work and thinking that needs to go into the vote. AV is also more expensive and time consuming. Because of the fact that less people understand how to use this method time and money will be needed to take into consideration in order to teach people how to correctly complete the ballot paper. Another disadvantage of AV, like that of in FPTP is that the number of votes that a party has earned is not proportional to the amount of seats that they win. A last disadvantage of using the AV system is that because of the time it would take to fill out the ballot paper less people would be bothered to vote leaving a possible low election turn out. It also means that people will not care to vote correctly. By this, I mean that voters may choose their first and most preferred choice and then randomly rank the other candidates, or just leave the paper as it is and not rank the other candidates just because they do not want to spend too much time thinking about it. This means that ballot papers may be spoilt and are not counted for making the election less
There are four ways in which to vote and they are Personal, Postal, Electronic and By Proxy:
o Personal:
Voting personally means that an individual votes by going to a polling station and filling in a ballot paper that they then put into a ballot box. All voting is done anonymously and therefore each individual votes in separate polling booths. This stops any forestalling and voting intimidation. However, voting personally also takes time and money because staff are needed in order to count the votes.
o Postal:
Voting by post involves the individual filling out a ballot paper and postal voting statement anonymously/ secretly and then posting it off in an envelope. Voting by post means that there is no need to enter a polling …show more content…
As AV needs voters to rank the representatives in order of preference some people may not understand what they have to do, as there is a lot more work and thinking that needs to go into the vote. AV is also more expensive and time consuming. Because of the fact that less people understand how to use this method time and money will be needed to take into consideration in order to teach people how to correctly complete the ballot paper. Another disadvantage of AV, like that of in FPTP is that the number of votes that a party has earned is not proportional to the amount of seats that they win. A last disadvantage of using the AV system is that because of the time it would take to fill out the ballot paper less people would be bothered to vote leaving a possible low election turn out. It also means that people will not care to vote correctly. By this, I mean that voters may choose their first and most preferred choice and then randomly rank the other candidates, or just leave the paper as it is and not rank the other candidates just because they do not want to spend too much time thinking about it. This means that ballot papers may be spoilt and are not counted for making the election less