mark ([identity profile] emarkienna.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] emperor 2011-04-15 08:48 pm (UTC)

Another source is http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/michaelcrick/2010/02/how_av_made_cameron_tory_leade.html .

It says "a variation on AV". It's unclear to me how it differs. What's important is that it seems to share all the same features that No2AV and David Cameron himself are criticising (e.g., electing the "loser" of the first round votes).

I'm not sure how many places use exactly the same system is important - because you can just make your criteria more and more specific to rule out everyone else. I mean, no one has *exactly* the same system as we have now, if you include trivial things like number of constituencies etc. What matters is what features are shared by other countries.

The No2AV claim is technically correct the way they word it; though rather misleading I feel.

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