please empty your brain below

The lack of objective analysis on the effects of choosing AV has left me very frustrated. So, I did some of my own. Guess what? It doesn't really matter either way; our general elections will be much the same regardless of the outcome of the referendum.

I still don't understand this "A 'YES' vote would be recommending electoral reform that wasn't in any way proportional".

What is it that you want - i.e. what reform WOULD make it proportional?



I decided to use the AV system to cast my vote today - 1st preference Yes , 2nd prefernece No!

A chap came to the door last week. He was delivering leaflets and asked me if I was going to vote YES. I asked him, "YES to what?" His answer: "YES to the referendum". I didn't have the heart to tell him we were having a referendum whether he liked it or not.

If you wanted a local example, you could've always said that AV would not have given you George Galloway in 2005.

The best suggestion I've seen is that the next election should be run on a First Past The Post basis, using AV ballot papers.

This would allow the difference in outcome between the two systems to be computed, something which has been at the heart of the debate and yet which, without such a dual-mode election, is a matter of pure (wild?) speculation by both camps.

It was the leaflet that warned of people like the BNP profiting, whilst urging me to vote a certain way because it was what Winston Churchill would have wanted, that made me hide under the table battering my head against the floor.



I just wish that there was an option to tell the "No" campaigners what a bunch of cynical intellectually dishonest shysters they are without voting to give the Liberal Party more power

I've had one leaflet from the "No" saying that if I vote yes ickle babies will DIE and I've had a "Yes" leaflet saying if I vote no this proud war veteran will lose his dying wish. They're both repellant.

Like you I've decided to vote yes while accepting No will probably win.

Like you,

voting YES,

sadly expecting,

the status quo.

I voted and was pleased to note a decent number of people heading to the Polling Station as I headed back home. Nice to see people in London making the effort to use their vote rather than not bother.

I think the YES vote would have done much better if they'd just run this (plus a corresponding version for dog lovers) as their advertising campaign...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiHuiDD_oTk&feature=player_embedded#t=0s


Kittens!

I reached the same conclusion as you, DG, and voted Yes for exactly the same reason. And how bad and sad do I feel about my reasoning? *sigh*











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