On May 5th along with voting for new Borough Councillors you will be asked to vote on a new way of electing MP's, councillors etc.
Under the new system of Alternative Vote (AV) you will be asked to rank all candidates from your first choice to your last choice.
If one candidate gets over 50% of the votes then they are elected if not then the candidate who got fewest votes has their votes redistributed according to their voters second choice, this continues until one candidate has over 50% of the vote and they are then elected.
I will be voting against AV because it will be confusing and the result, in the end, will be little different to what it is now.
The only way to get true democracy is a Proportional Representation system similar to that used for the European Elections and The Welsh Assembly and Scottish Assembly elctions.
Under the new system of Alternative Vote (AV) you will be asked to rank all candidates from your first choice to your last choice.
If one candidate gets over 50% of the votes then they are elected if not then the candidate who got fewest votes has their votes redistributed according to their voters second choice, this continues until one candidate has over 50% of the vote and they are then elected.
I will be voting against AV because it will be confusing and the result, in the end, will be little different to what it is now.
The only way to get true democracy is a Proportional Representation system similar to that used for the European Elections and The Welsh Assembly and Scottish Assembly elctions.