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Independent View: Time for Lib Dems to ditch STV

By Anthony Butcher | 21st May 2011 - 6:14 pm

With the loss of the AV referendum, electoral reformers across Britain are now looking at what went wrong and what changes they can make for the future to ensure it doesn’t happen again. We need our political parties to do the same, and that means a re-evaluating their electoral reform policies.

As absurd as it is, the perceived complexity of AV was a significant factor in its rejection by the public. The whole concept of preferential voting has now been tainted for a generation as overly complicated. If we are to engage the public interest in the future we need to …

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Posted in The Independent View | Tagged electoral reform, electoral reform society and STV | 52 Comments

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