The NO vote
I'm voting NO, as its the wrong change. AV still mean in an area such as “The Vale of the White House” your vote wouldn't count! even if you voted 1. Labour 2. Independent 3. Lib-Dem, As the “Conservatives” will win, discounting your votes, it just means extra cost and confusion at the polling station and NO real change! Agreed in areas where its balanced between parties, there would be a clear winner, but still no representation for the other voters and parties in Government.
The Alternative Vote is a complicated, expensive and unfair system that gives some people more votes than others. It might sound like a small change but the danger is in the detail — it's a politicians' fix.
Governments would be selected through backroom deals and people would have no control over where their vote goes. It should be voters that decide who the best candidate is, not the voting system. Defend one person, one vote. Vote NO to AV on 5 May.
The YES vote
Here's a brief explanation of AV and why it's clearly a better system that our current First Past the Post, and why we think you should vote YES on May 5th.
UPDATE – There's now a handy poster / leaflet version you can print out and pin up!
http://www.letsavabeer.comThere's a lot of nonsense talked about AV but the truth is simple – by every measure it's a fairer, more effective and more common sense voting system.
Hopefully this film shows that whereas our current system can produce obviously unfair results, AV will always produce a result the majority of voters are happy with.
There are many other ways in which AV is an improvement including:
– fewer safer seats
– no need for tactical voting
– harder for extremists to get electedFor a detail look at these issues there are many excellent blogs such as:
Is AV better than FPTP?http://niaccurshi.blogspot.com/
http://ipswichspy.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/why-you-should-vote-%E2%80%98yes%E…
and of course the Yes Campaign site:
http://www.yestofairervotes.org/Please do make the effort to vote on May 5th — this is our one chance in a generation to change the way this country works for the better.
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