Poll: F.P.T.P or A.V.. This Thursday
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I guess you can just turn up to a polling station with ID? Or what? :/
Yeah you dont need the card.
Cool cool, I'll pop down with my passport + bank statement to the polling station at/by work when I go back.
Don't need any form of ID, just voted without my polling card.
which he doesn't have
Don't need any form of ID, just voted without my polling card.
which he doesn't have
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Voted yes.
It's unlikely (unless things change very drastically in the next few decades) that I'll see another chance at a voting reform in my lifetime and I'd rather vote under a poor system than a poorer one, if PR was on the cards I would have jumped at the opportunity but it is not.
a democracy is not 'rule by the largest minority', it should be a 'rule by majority' FPTP offers the former, AV offers the latter.
It's unlikely (unless things change very drastically in the next few decades) that I'll see another chance at a voting reform in my lifetime and I'd rather vote under a poor system than a poorer one, if PR was on the cards I would have jumped at the opportunity but it is not.
a democracy is not 'rule by the largest minority', it should be a 'rule by majority' FPTP offers the former, AV offers the latter.
Can I have a poll please mods
1. First Past The Post
2. Alternative Vote
3. Politics can kiss my hoop
Two choices, three if you are being obtuse.
First past the post.
http://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/article.php?id=54
Alternative vote.
http://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/article.php?id=55
Your choices please ladies and gentle folk.
I'm going to vote for change (again) AV for me.
Much fairer and more representative of the people as a whole.
Unfortunatley the links don't provide a very balanced summary of either voting types there, considering it's published on electoral-reform.org
Going to be voting no, because sadly there are too many stupid people in this country who hate certain parties without really knowing why. If we had AV these people would just end up skewing the results by sticking said parties at the bottom of their list for no real good reason other than their parent's hate them.
Tactical voting is a bigger problem under FPTP than AV.
No it's not.
Tactical voting under AV gives the opportunity for pointless, ineffective parties like the Greens and BNP to get into power as they are potentially placed higher up the rankings when the Tories (or whoever) get put at the bottom, "just because".
Which in effect is no different from not voting for them with FPTP.