Given that the entirety of the national media, and both major parties, spend the whole of election time
drumming home that a vote for anyone else is a complete waste, I don't see that ever happening. So, a change in the system.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 13:15, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

That isn't going to change with a change in system, though.
They're still going to drum home that there's no other viable alternative. What needs to change is peoples' interest in politics, not the way we vote.
( Kroney, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 13:17, Reply)

Well not with the AV system, but if we were allowed a compelte PR system
like the one in the Netherlands, then you can end up with huge turnouts because people are aware that their votes mean something.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 13:23, Reply)

I've often thought that internet voting would be an excellent way of mobilising more people.
Plus it would make referendums much quicker and cheaper to execute, meaning we could have more of them and, therefore, more direct control.
( Kroney, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 13:27, Reply)

Which would, in turn
mobilise more the electorate to vote.
( Kroney, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 13:28, Reply)

Hmmmm, I don't want lots of referendums
If I wanted to run the country myself I'd become a politician, I don't want to do that, I want the people I elect to run the country in accordance with the promises they set out when I voted for them.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 13:29, Reply)

You say that, but you've just freely admitted you haven't looked at *anything* to do with AV before declaring your opposition to it.

(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Mon 21 Mar 2011, 13:28, Reply)

www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1128692
( Kroney, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 13:29, Reply)