The City of Liverpool Conservatives launched their 5 Reasons to Vote ‘NO’ TO AV Campaign at the Pier Head this week.
5 Reasons to Vote ‘NO’ TO AV
1. AV is unfair. With First Past the Post, everybody gets one vote. But under AV, supporters of extreme parties like the BNP would get their vote counted many times, while people who vote for one of the mainstream candidates would only get their vote counted once.
2. AV doesn’t work. Rather than the candidate who receives the most votes winning the election, the person who finishes third could be declared the winner.
3. AV is expensive. Calculating the results is a long, complicated process, which would cost the taxpayer millions. It can take days to figure out exactly who has won.
4. AV is discredited. Whereas First Past the Post is the most widely used system in the world, only 3 countries actually use AV – Fiji, Australia and Papua New Guinea. And in Australia, six out of ten people want to get rid of it.
5. No-one actually wants AV. Even the ‘Yes’ campaigners don’t actually want AV – they see it as a convenient stepping stone to even more reforms. Many of the Yes campaigners have previously criticised AV.
To view the Liverpool Daily Post's coverage of the launch click here.