Epic No to AV maths and Godwin's Law fail.

Even if this out of scale it's still wrong, if there's 5 candidates the person in last place cannot tip the person in second place over 50% if there's two candidates with more votes than them, no?

If I'm generous and give the winner 1005 votes the person in second 1004 and then 1003, 1002 and finally 1001 for the BNP, even if ALL the votes for the BNP transferred to the second place party that still can't make them win on their own, that's how much of a fail this is.

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[TheWakeUpCall]

Can I just say... if the majority want BNP, that's who should be in power. I hate the ideals of the BNP, but in a democracy and a modern world, the party the people want in power should win!

Don't believe this scaremongering. Obviously the majority don't want the BNP and you don't need to worry about 'extremists' voting for obscure parties. They are the minority, and the parties are obscure for a reason. AV allows the majority to get the party in power they want.

[finalfantac]

Fuck you whoever made this advert. Whether you agree with the BNP or not they're still a political party, and how dare you incite the idea that their voters are somehow 'less' worthy to vote than other people. People like you are exactly the reason the voting system needs to change.

[irishgodfatherchris]

@MrAEMiller most of the time the candidate which is leading after the primary count will win, here in Australia results like Corangamite and Denison are rare.

[irishgodfatherchris]

@MrAEMiller it is, hell if Australian teenagers can understand it (my old school actually used it to elect multiple members of the student body) and if they can understand it so should've the British Public.

[MrAEMiller]

It's not as simple as 1,2,3

[MrAEMiller]

Of course if you were tell these kind of lies at a General Election about a candidate you'd be liable for prosecution by the Electoral Commission but because no human is being elected both campaigns are exempted. It's a legal loophole.

[MrAEMiller]

It is indeed nonsense. But the YES campaign should have known this stuff - it took me a week to calculate that if the person in 1st place doesn't get 50% then the person in 2nd or 3rd place can win and if the person in 2nd place gets between 25 and 33%. Other candidates (4th to nth places) can just push the person in 1st place over the finishing line but not the party in 2nd place. For an in depth explanation of mathematical model of AV visit the pear shaped av deal or no deal page.

[MonsterMunchAreAce]

Here is pretty solid evidence that the referendum was rigged , simply look at the likes/dislikes for No and YES vids , of course it's not a valid poll but the fact that they are generally the exact reverse of the end results is unbelievably suspicious .

I smell a dictatorship.

[MiffyJef]

This is so ridiculously wrong I actually enjoyed it!

[astrolox]

@OppositeOfCoffee Amen to that.

[TimConroy66]

@philipmcjim AV is no less proportionate than FPTP - it depends on the individual constituencies. We already have parties in power with a false sense of legitamacy. I'm saying Yes because it will mean I don't have to vote tactically, I can express support for my favourite and second favourite candidate, and I know my local MP has had support from at least half the voters. FPTP only works in a two party set-up and we have 3 large parties and quite a few smaller ones. Vote Yes because it's better

[Dark0Storm]

@follow40 You say that... but this is an official video from the NO2AV campaign... and you'd be surprised how many people believe it!