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“The voting system is broken, back the Alternative”: ads to help win May’s voting referendum

By Stephen Tall | Sun 22nd August 2010 - 4:35 pm

Last month, The Voice asked the question, Can you design a poster to win the AV “Yes” campaign?, highlighting TakeBackParliament.com‘s competition to crowd-source the design talent of bloggers who support abolishing first-past-the-vote and replacing it with the Alternative Vote in readiness for next May’s referendum.

The winner has now been announced (and sorry, guys, but it doesn’t do it for me). Runner-up was Lib Dem blogger Stuart Bonar, who produced an excellent series of designs.

Here’s an example from one batch:

And an even more inspired …

Posted in News | Also tagged alternative vote, av referendum and stuart bonar | 27 Comments

Can you design a poster to win the AV “Yes” campaign?

By Stephen Tall | Mon 26th July 2010 - 7:22 pm

TakeBackParliament.com has launched a competition to crowd-source the design talent of bloggers who support abolishing first-past-the-vote and replacing it with the Alternative Vote in readiness for next May’s referendum.

Andy May – occasional contributor to LDV – has mocked up this effort to get the ball rolling:

But he’s asking for readers’ assistance:

What do you think? Could you do better?

We’re looking for your poster designs and ideas – post your design on your blog and paste the link in the comments or send them to

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Posted in Online politics | Also tagged alternative vote and andy may | 29 Comments