It’s worth noting that the U.K. had a referendum on Alternative Vote (AV) and voted 68% to 32% to reject it and maintain the status quo of First Past The Post. Turnout was 42%.
Also worth noting that both AV and FPTP are winner-take-all methods, unlike the proportional methods I discuss here. The AV referendum question was essentially “do you want to take a disruptive half-step that lines you up for maybe, sometime in the future, actually fixing the problem?”; I’m not the only one who believes it was intentionally engineered to fail.
It’s worth noting that the U.K. had a referendum on Alternative Vote (AV) and voted 68% to 32% to reject it and maintain the status quo of First Past The Post. Turnout was 42%.
Also worth noting that both AV and FPTP are winner-take-all methods, unlike the proportional methods I discuss here. The AV referendum question was essentially “do you want to take a disruptive half-step that lines you up for maybe, sometime in the future, actually fixing the problem?”; I’m not the only one who believes it was intentionally engineered to fail.