AV - Totally Shambolic!

Whats wrong with actually being able to vote for whoever you want to vote for, rather than having only a couple of choices, and the possibility of being shunned in your local area for voting against the majority? I think this whole referendum is pretty pointless though because we all know that all those jailed people and 'deceased' people are going to miraculously turn up and vote, and it will go in favour of whatever the richest bidder wants.

I'm with you on that one Janey, even though there is a bit of pressure here in Wales to to for yes. If there's going to be too many co-alition nobody is going to really have the opportunity to put their policies to work without a lot of compromising deals in the backrooms of parliament. It's frustrating that so many people don't even know what it is or is! The system we have is not perfect, and second and third choices seems nuts to me. The last election reflected the feelings of the nation well I thought, and that was that there wasn't one leader strong enough to get an overall majority, and that in my opinion, will make our future leaders get more decisive and get their act together so all of us who care about our life in the UK know what we can expect from a government, but let's not be undecided about it... _Derek

Personally, I'd like a first and second choice on a ballot. As it so happens, I cast my vote today in a special ballot after my training session. We're having an election May 2, and I'm working as a Poll Clerk again. When is your election?

AV would be a disaster for the country. Potentially the "average" candidate would get in all too often. Our politicians are a lacklustre lot at the best of times without having an electoral system that positively encourages them. Ed Milliband "lovely"? Oh dear Janey!

As you rightly say, the local elections will more tan likely be a low turn out as most people will boycot the chance to vote as a way of showing how they are dispondant with the way the contry is going at present and some of the things that the government have tried to implement. As for AV, I will be saying 'No' the system we have maynot be idealistic but at least everyone knows how to put ione cross in a box. Give people any more choices and they will surely get confused and I can see that in the end the oversees would say that there were more spoiled ballots, simply from mis-understanding. The best system is maybe give everyone an I.Q. test to see if they have the mental ability to understand what they are actually voting for, hahahaha. So many people I hear saying, "I'll vote for him, he's a nice man and looks like my son/grandson." Honestly, gives us strength!