This is actually quite interesting!

[highlyeccentric]

Currently, Anthony Green, the leading Australian election commentator, is conducting a long internet conversation which can best be summed up as Preferential Voting for Dummies Britons. Scrolling back through the last couple of pages you can find detailed but plain-language explanations of all kinds of factors involved in Australian elections. Eg: how is a ballot paper counted?; No we don't use electronic voting machines; Are Australians tyrannised by the alternative vote?; and why it takes more than a week for election results to be finalised (hint: it's not the alternative vote).

If you read from the start of the kerfuffle forwards (instead of backwards, which is the order in which I linked you), Green's increasing tone of annoyance at having to explain the same basic things over and over again is deeply entertaining.