[joeysteele]

I will be voting NO,for a few reasons,some of them petty.

I voted Lib Dem at the election, my first vote and I feel I have been kicked in the teeth for giving them my trust so anything against Clegg I will do now.

This system as Livia says is only used in 3 Countries,the biggest being Australia who would like to ditch it and have another system.

On a newsnight programme the YES campaigners inc. Paddy Ashdown said that if used in elections in the UK over the last few decades,AV wouldn't have greatly altered the results we got.
That being the case then that is the main selling point of then voting NO to it, if that's the case then the time wasted and massive costs wasted on it of holding the referendum and then setting it up is not acceptable,we should cut our losses and not go down the road of the massive costs of setting the AV syatem up.

The other point of it is also, under AV the Conservatives would never again be likely to get an overall majority in elections, so any Conservative voters should think hard on that one.
The only party likely to be regularly involved in Govt under AV are the Lib Dems with their lies and chopping and changing of policies to suit themselves.

I hope its beaten and I hope it also means the Lib Dem party questions whether it has the right leader when he fails, as I hope he will fail,to deliver this very small move to electoral change.

I would vote for a full PR system,but that could easily have been on the ballot paper this time round too. The full question could have been asked and the chance has been missed so I hope the voters who do vote will vote no to it and this is resoundly voted against.