I think my noble and learned friend has missed one of the merits of the system. If the canvasser goes to the door and says to the voter, ““I’m not asking for you to give me a full vote, but if you just vote for me as your third preference, I will get one third of the vote””, that is actually an incentive for those people who might worry that if they give their third preference weighted at 100 per cent in terms of value, they might actually be interfering with their first preference. I would have thought that that is quite a considerable argument.
Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Campbell-Savours
(Labour)
in the House of Lords on Monday, 20 December 2010.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill.
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