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Date of the AV referendum
David Cameron has been urged to rethink plans for holding a referendum on voting reform at the same time as the Scottish Parliamentary election. Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond said in a letter to the prime minister that holding the votes on the same day could “overshadow” devolved issues. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/10586076.stm To be honest, if the…
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FPTP, AV, and PR
Yesterday saw the announcement of details of the coalition government’s plan for a voting reform referendum. As suspected true proportional representation (PR) isn’t on the table. Instead the choice is between the current first past the post (FPTP) system and the proposed alternative vote (AV) system. What is FPTP? This is relatively simple, and is…