Serious Danger

BONUS: Kevin Bonham on polling denialism & electoral reform

Added 2025-05-15 19:00:07 +0000 UTC

In this bonus episode for Patreon subscribers, Emerald and Tom are joined by one of Australia’s finest psephologists (election analysts), Dr Kevin Bonham! With the Greens winning 12% of the vote but only one lower house seat, is our voting system fair? And if not, what are the other options? Polling denialism, ‘wasted’ votes, Hare-Clark, Condorcet vs instant runoff, unicameralism, range voting, multi-member proportional… Let’s get our wonk on. And a little bit of Goldstein chat at the end!

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