This year I studied Voting systems for Politics. I won’t bore you with the details, but basically it taught me that by using a certain voting system you don’t always get an overall majority of people voting for that motion/candidate, plus there are always many wasted votes.
Everton should be commended for agreeing to ‘One Member, One vote’, its a step in the right direction, but is that the end of the matter?
The subject of who exactly would be conducting the election process came up at a recent meeting of the KEIOC with Keith Wyness in attendance. Certain confused members raised concerns as to why Everton where going to pay the Electoral Commision in London a vast amount of money, when Liverpool County Council would to their knowledge do it for far less, some even suggested possibly for free, But for some reason Everton don’t seem interested.
Now the question arises – if Everton are paying a society to conduct the election process, that society are working and therefore answerable to Everton, so maybe they are going to be inclined to produce a result to the Everton boards and not the fans liking?
This could be done in various ways. The Electoral Society has manipulated referendums for years with biased wording of questions, and various other ways. It just seems to me that having seen a planned map of Kirkby for the future with two schools crossed out and marked ‘Property of Everton FC’ that Everton would prefer the Society to edge towards engineering a landslide ‘Move To Kirkby’ vote win.
Far more details need to be released to convince I and other Evertonians of the transparency and fairness of this electoral commision and system that Everton is going to use, because as in all voting systems, we don’t want wasted votes do we?
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