Mayoral elections

http://www.mayorwatch.co.uk/go-figure-voters-need-to-use-the-mayor-...

I thought this was an interesting article on how to use your vote in the upcoming mayoral elections. Being so used to first-past-the-post, we tend to think that a vote for a minority party is a wasted vote, but the point of the Supplementary Vote(SV) system is to allow you to express a true preference, whilst giving a back-up vote to your "least worst" other option. This perception is further reinforced by media rules which ensure that we only really hear from the top three candidates and smaller parties are not given a voice.