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Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

I think that the Electoral Commission's wording is a big improvement. It removes words such as ““adopt””, which had biased connotations in the original. I have studied the commission's research. According to one of its findings,"““Some people thought that the reason for changing the voting system was because the last election had resulted in a hung Parliament and that perhaps AV would avoid that.””" There is clearly a great deal of confusion about AV, which will actually lead to more rather than fewer hung Parliaments. There is a second problem. In fact, AV is simply a second-rate version of first past the post. Let me make another suggestion about the wording. Perhaps it should refer to a ““one person, one vote”” system, which is what we have now, versus a multiple voting system in which some people receive more votes than others—which is basically what AV is.