Thread by @ListVoteSense

This is so full of erroneous statements and assumptions. ‘The issue of the vital list vote needs to be discussed & debated until a consensus is reached.’ Sadly, there’s been too much uninformed discussion and a total failure to look at what modelling the data predicts.

https://twitter.com/citizentommy/status/1298281241238700035

To state that the SNP can’t win any more list seats is false: if it’s percentage goes up, so will the list seats: the reason there were only 4 in 2016 was because the list was 5% below the constituency %. If they matched, the SNP would have doubled it’s list seats.

To state SNP can’t win in Glasgow is false. Latest Panelbase poll predicts seats in Glasgow and Central (YouGov poll has SNP on two seats in Central). If there’s enough defection of SNP votes to list parties, those SNP seats will go to Labour instead (as well as H&I seat to LDs).

Presumably Tommy is standing for a list party (AFI, hence #MaxTheYes), so he has a vested interest in you voting for a list party.

Again, a proponent of #TacticalVoting relies on rhetoric with zero data analysis to support claims (which would only expose the notion as false.)

If the minor parties just said, vote for us, because of our policies’, no problem.

But when they try to get your vote through utterly misleading and probably false claims about (impossible) ‘tactical voting’ and ‘easily achievable’ ‘supermajorities’, this needs to be challenged.

Whether it’s a result of failure to understand the electoral system, or a cynical attempt to win seats on the back of swallowing their own fantasies of ‘supermajorities’, misinformation is being spread that all Yessers should alert themselves to.

As soon as you see a list party proponent talk of:

-tactical voting
-targeting unionist list seats
-supermajorities

know these are red flags that indicate they have no clue about how the electoral system works, and they are wittingly or unwittingly spreading misinformation.