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Question: Do you want the United Kingdom to adopt the 'alternative vote' system instead of the current 'first past the post' system for electing Members of Parliament to the House of Commons?
#1
Yes
 
#2
No
 
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Total Voters: 43

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True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)
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« on: March 12, 2011, 04:02:04 PM »

It seems to me that you're all essentially arguing either in favour of the Australian senate model or the Australian House of Reps model. I spot a solution.

Move to Australia? Grin
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« Reply #1 on: April 10, 2011, 02:14:07 PM »


As someone who is mostly indifferent but with a slight preference towards AV, ads such as this would motivate me to make certain I vote in the referendum and vote for AV.
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« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2011, 05:48:07 PM »

why is No now leading in the polling when they weren't before?

The default action for most people when presented with a choice they don't really care about is to stick with the status quo rather than face the risk of change producing something worse.  Unless you were a LibDem, there wasn't anything obviously bad about the voting system in the UK.  Why risk ending up with something worse?
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« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2011, 08:24:07 PM »

The electoral college is really a warped, presidential version of FPTP. It's just that the US only has two parties so it works properly. When there's a significant 3rd candidate, it breaks down (Ralph Nader).

Nader never was and never could be a significant third candidate.
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