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Originally Posted by Matt D
The Lib Dems want to see the UK use the Single Transferable Vote (STV) system. This is the same system preferred by the Electoral Reform Society, & also by Conservative Action for Electoral Reform.
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The biggest problem with that system is that by and large the public are idiots and asking them to do anything more complex than scrawl an X leads to all manner of issues.
The system was used in the last elections up here and caused over 100,000 spoiled papers (about 1 in 20 of all votes cast)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/com...cle1756280.ece