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In Australia They Cannot Tell The Difference Between AV And PR!

Charles Vickers — Fri, 06 May 2011 10:33:16 +0000

Worse, Key Advisors on the English NHS Listening Project cannot Evaluate Evidence!

In a recent blog Sir Stephen Bubb http://bloggerbubb.blogspot.com/ publishes a letter from friends in Australia describing vividly how AV pushed

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Is There A Simple Way To Choose Between Voting Systems?

Charles Vickers — Thu, 05 May 2011 13:39:39 +0000

The fact that there are so many voting systems in use around the world implies that the choice of system is more likely to rest on cultural values and context rather than on some scientifically developed, or socially accepted, theory.

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The Low, Low Standards Of The “NO” To AV Campaign

Charles Vickers — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 12:37:49 +0000

For democracy to be seen to done in an election the candidate chosen must get more than 50% of the vote. If this does not happen you get the situation that we in the UK are familiar with. Candidates and governments are elected with less, sometimes much less than half of the votes cast. To get around this the French use the “run-off” system in their Presidential elections. In this, if the leading candidate does not have more than 50% of the vote, the candidate with the least number of votes is eliminated and the voters are called back to vote again. This continues until one candidate gets more than half the votes. Such a system ensures that a minority President, or government, cannot be elected. It is democratic and it is fair. But, with its multiple rounds of voting, it is arduous and time consuming.

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The Alternative Vote

Charles Vickers — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:12:49 +0000

On the 5th May we in England will have our first opportunity, ever, to vote on the voting system that is used to elect MPs.

Let me say that again. “we in England will have our first opportunity, ever, to vote on the voting system that is used to elect MPs.”

Isn’t It Time For The CBI To Stop Whinging?

Charles Vickers — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 10:49:17 +0000

James Boxall reported in the 1st October 2010 Kindle edition of the Financial times that the CBI has said that the new rules restricting foreign workers from outside the EU must be reviewed. Why?

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