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Originally Posted by kestrelx
Those who say that the 1st past the post system will avoid confusion and watered down government, seem to have forgot we have a coalition now because the 1st past the post system hasn't worked at the 2010 election - thus we have this coalition.
With AV; MP's will have to work harder to keep their seat - I am personally sick of MP's who have seats for life off less than 50% of the consituency vote.
What is AV? | Yes to fairer votes - Yes to AV - Alternative Vote
If they spent the same amount of time on TV, explaining how the AV works rather than promoting that Royal Wedding - this would be a far better country!
AV will mean that politicians and politics is fairer. |
I'm afraid I must disagree there.
The more candidates there are in an election the more diverse the vote is going to be. There were 9 candidates last year and the public are expected to rate them in order? I didn't hear from half of them myself so essentially 4 or 5 of the points from my ballot sheet would have been falsely awarded from the start because I knew nothing about them. The losers' points would then have been arbitrarily awarded to people who I wouldn't have voted for simply in order for someone to break through the 50% mark.
Nothing about that system speaks of democracy to me, it is just a way of bumping up the votes for lesser parties and actually making the system less fair by forcing people to allocate points to people they wouldn't want in power in the first place.
It's a definite 'no' from me.