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Originally Posted by Xaccers
What if your 2nd choice is the same as your 1st?
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Well you list them numerically, you can't have that. You maintain the right not to choose a 2nd and if your candidate is eliminated then you haven't chosen a 2nd (because you hate them all for example) then you don't vote for anyone else.
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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
I thought of that and duly amended things - however you can't have a coalition in a single seat. I'm talking locally now not nationally.
I don't find the idea of losing some of the locality of the FPTP system good. While on one side one could say that the Lib Dems would receive far more seats the fact would be that a majority of the people in a majority of those seats did not vote for the MP they will receive as a result of PR. Great for the Lib Dems nationally, not so great locally especially in areas where strongly Tory or Labour seats find themselves with a Lib Dem MP who may not represent their views locally.
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You don't lose the locality, the main suggestion put forward by the Lib dems does not remove your local MP. Only changes how they are elected, to remove safe seats.