Questions on Electoral Reform

Riley you raise some really good points, and I think the wording would have to be revised somewhat in consideration of your concerns. Rather than asking which is most FAIR, why not ask people which they think is BEST?

This would allow personal preference to weigh much more heavily, as people who see justice as fairness would be distinguished from people who look for electoral systems to produce effective governments.

In response to the limited set from our options, I think we're alright. The two other options you provided I am entirely unfamiliar with, so I wouldn't expect a significant proportion of respondents to feel alienated by our selection. Removing proportional representation I'm not certain about. You're right that it would divide people who may support a subset of proportional voting, which is why I might be inclined to remove it, but at the same time a purely proportional system is very different than the STV option.

Splitting the vote could end up being exactly the response we want. I offered the possibility that one reason why the STV DIDN'T pass was because of those alternate systems, STV was less preferable to many than one of the other options. It is possible that we could witness exactly the same distribution of STV preference in our question as in the referendum, with most of the split coming from people who voted in favour of keeping the current system.