The Great Referendum Rip-Off

Great news that a referendum is to be held on making the UK's ridiculous voting system marginally better by moving to AV.

But already the vested interests are out in force trying to rig the thing.

Tory MP Bernard Jenkin complains that holding the vote on the same day as local & Scottish and Welsh parliamentary elections would "artificially inflate the turnout". And there was us thinking Democratic politicians actually wanted high turnouts in order to better represent the will of the governed!

The dinosaurs are also trying to impose an arbitrary "threshold", so that even if a majority of voters back change, the status quo could still win. The "threshold" would work by requiring the proposal to change the voting system to not only win the referendum but get the support of 40% of everyone on the voting register - including those who didn't vote. In effect this would mean that non-voters would count as opponents of reform and would give opponents of reform a massive advantage in the referendum campaign.

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