I think after being persuaded that something as weird as FPTP makes sense and is fair and representative, it’s easy to understand how people could find something as simple (*) as STV confusing.
(*simple at the front end, it’s not important how complicated it is behind the scenes, if it was, nobody’s ever drive a car)
It’s funny that people complain it’s a proxy vote for the general election or independence – here in Glasgow the SNP have been very good about talking about local issues, whereas the Tories’ entire campaign has been “We said No and we meant it” – no mention of local policies at all.
Aye, same here. My dad’s a No voter but even he ripped the arse out of his local tory- she turned up at his door, talked about independence, answered every question with independence, then accused the SNP of being obsessed with independence. And when he said he thought that was daft, she assumed he was an SNP/Yes voter. And all for a council election, last I looked nobody’s trying to make the Pentland Hills independent.
(meanwhile I am an SNP/Yes voter but I might well vote Labour. it’s not a proxy for government and one of our candidates is actually really good- he deserved to make it as an MP but, well, that was 2015 for you)