that's always the risk when you go for a celebrity endorsement heavy approach as they have
especially the weird mix of d-listers and fucking mick hucknall.
One thing Australia got right was preferential voting, so if your preferred candidate polls lowly your vote is transferred to your second preference, and so on. You can number all the candidates in preference if you want. They tally all the votes and the candidate that got the least is knocked out and they redistribute the preferences of the people who voted for them to their next preference, assuming that person isn't knocked out already. You keep going until there is two left.
In practice it means you can give your vote (first preference) to your favourite candidate without worrying you're wasting your vote on a long shot and letting somebody you hate get in because of it. I'm surprised more countries havent adopted it instead of first-past-the-post
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