{"id":5445,"date":"2011-04-18T09:06:14","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T08:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=5445"},"modified":"2011-04-18T09:06:14","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T08:06:14","slug":"yes-to-the-alternative-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=5445","title":{"rendered":"Yes to the alternative vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=4670\">a previous posting<\/a>, I have declared my support for the introduction of the Alternative Vote (AV) electoral system for elections to the UK Parliament and my intention to vote &#8216;yes&#8217; in the referendum on 5 May.<\/p>\n<p>Today the think tank the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr) &#8211; for whom my son works &#8211; has published a report setting out the case for AV and refuting the arguments against it.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the Alternative Vote system is better suited to the modern electorate  than First Past the Post because voters have become more \u2018promiscuous\u2019  and less tribal in the way they vote.  The report shows that voters are happy to express more than one  preference when they cast their ballots and most people are prepared to  express three preferences.<\/p>\n<p>The report shows that AV will reduce tactical voting while preserving  the principle of \u2018one voter, one vote\u2019.\u00a0YouGov polling for ippr shows  that more than one in five voters say they have engaged in \u2018tactical  voting\u2019 and voted for their second choice under the First Past the Post  system<\/p>\n<p>The media release is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ippr.org.uk\/pressreleases\/?id=4446\">here<\/a> and the report is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ippr.org.uk\/publicationsandreports\/publication.asp?id=814\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a previous posting, I have declared my support for the introduction of the Alternative Vote (AV) electoral system for elections to the UK Parliament and my intention to vote &#8216;yes&#8217; in the referendum on 5 May. Today the think tank the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr) &#8211; for whom my son works &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5445"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5460,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5445\/revisions\/5460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}