Today's the 5th of the 5th, meaning the british people are going out today to vote, for if they want the new 'alternate voting system' or the system we use at the moment.
Having looked into both of these systems and asked numerous people their opinions on them, I still honestly feel as confused to which one I want, as I was when I began. From what I understand we either have, our current system, where u vote for one person, and whoever gets most votes wins, but may need to form coalitions, or the new AV. AV being 'alternate vote, where you rank every party best to worst, and if u get over 50% of rank 1, you win, if not, u then have to and ur percentage of rank 2, then rank 3 and so on until a party gets 50% or more, showing they have the majority. I think I've explained AV correct, and quite simply, however does anyone actually know a way of explaining what AV is, without having to repeat yourself several times to help people understand???
I do think that each system has aspects that are both good and bad, but ideally, neither seem to be just right for how I feel the vote should be held. Now I know this is just my opinion, but I have heard the idea of proportional representation thrown around in the talks of voting systems, and actually, I think that may be slightly better and more fairer then the options we've been given. However as that isn't an option I'll have to go back and rethink.
Due to being at work today, I intend to go and vote later on, however at this moment I still am unsure what's best. Is it that the question is solely 'AV or not AV' or is part of it down to change, keeping our old system we've used for years, or changing to the new. Perhaps change isn't so bad, even if it doesn't work, then at least we'd have given it ago.
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