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Don't worry, in all of our normal elections it is insane.
by c0g 10y ago
Don't worry, in all of our normal elections it is insane.
- newjersey 10y agoThere was an opportunity to fix the insanity in an earlier referendum. Such a wasted opportunity. Probably the saddest referendum result in my lifetime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_Alternative_Vote_referendum,_2011 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_Alternative_Vot...
- matthewmacleod 10y agoI'm a big fan of reforming the electoral system in the UK, but the AV referendum was an awful fudge at best, plainly just offered as a sop to the Liberal Democrats. It was genuinely one of the worst referendum campaigns of all time though. I'm still haunted by the 'if you vote for this then babies will die' adverts.
- Freaky 10y agohttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/feb/25/no-to-alternative-vote-baby-ad https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/feb/25/no-to-... :/
- toyg 10y agoThat would have just brought UKIP into government with the Tories faster and accelerated the process.
- eru 10y agoThe Alternative Vote was a stupid suggestion in any case. (A similar system doesn't work too well in Australia.) Something like Approval Voting or even better range voting would have been worth it. http://www.rangevoting.org/ http://www.rangevoting.org/