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| UK Election Arcana, Explained By Software
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| from the ask-the-queen dept.
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| posted by timothy on Sunday May 09, @17:59 (Government)
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https://politics.slashdot.org/story/10/05/09/224239/UK-Election-Arcana-Explained-By-Softwar|
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An anonymous reader writes "For the first time in 35 years the UK
government is looking to be at risk of getting a hung or coalition
government. (The most recent previous hung parliaments were in 1974 and
1929.) The voting rules are somewhat arcane and the votes this time are
such that there are many strange possible outcomes and surprisingly large
number of permutations of coalitions that could be formed and political
strategies that may go into their forming. There are at least 60
permutations some more politically plausible than others. [0]Adam Back
wrote some [1]software to work out the permutations , and lists some of
the arcane factors affecting the outcome. If Labour Prime Minister Gordon
Brown chose to, it would appear even that he could simply refuse to
resign, ostensibly trying to form a coalition indefinitely, maybe even
forcing the Queen to dismiss the current Government, which last happened
in 1834 under King William IV."
Discuss this story at:
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/05/09/224239
Links:
0. http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/
1. http://www.cypherspace.org/coalition/
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