Alternative vote sounds nice in theory, but I have a feeling the practical result would be no change. There's no spoiler effect in the case of a large percentage of one candidate's votes being siphoned off by a popular sub-party, but only if the independents draw largely from only one candidate. I think in practice this effect would have negligible impact on the actual outcome of races and simply increase the complexity of the process.
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