Electoral Reform Society backs STV for Holyrood

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Electoral Reform Society backs STV for Holyrood

By the founding editor | Fri 18th May 2007 - 11:00 am

From BBC News:

The Electoral Reform Society has hailed Scotland’s council election as a resounding success.
The organisation has suggested that there were “major inadequacies” in the vote for the Scottish Parliament, which saw more than 140,000 rejected ballots.

However, a report from the society will say that the single transferable vote (STV) system used in the council election worked well.

It wants Holyrood to adopt the STV method, a call backed by the Lib Dems.

Research carried out by the BBC has shown that the proportion of spoilt ballot papers was far lower for the council election on 3 May.

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One Comment

James Graham 18th May '07 - 11:58am

More to the point, the Lib Dems are actively campaigning on this, in both Holyrood and Westminster: http://www.theherald.co.uk/politics/holyrood/display.var.1408104.0.0.php

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