The alternative vote referendum (AV)

Can anyone explain which voting system is better with out causing brain freeze..

Check out this thread on over50sforum Murf:

http://www.over50sforum.com/showthread.php?t=3069

Basically AV gives you 3 choices - and a candidate can only win if they get at least 50% of the votes.

If nobody gets 50% of the votes on the first count, the losing candidate is knocked out, and the voting slips from the people who voted for that candidate get counted again - but this time taking the second choice. If there is still not a clear winner they do the same again.

It means more people will have voted for the winning party