In a post to the BBC I said "The LibDem manifesto says (page 87) that "Liberal Democrats will change politics and abolish safe seats by introducing a fair, more proportional voting system for MPs. Our preferred Single Transferable Vote system gives people the choice between candidates as well as parties."
Labour are planning to offer the Lib Dems a bill on bringing in the Alternative Vote (AV) electoral system and a referendum on a fuller system of proportional representation (PR). Conservatives 'final offer' last night to the LibDems was an AV referendum.
The Electoral Reform Society (ERS) in a 10th May press release explain why they strongly favour Single Transferable Vote (STV) over AV. AV is not a proportional system, and can in fact be more disproportional than First Past The Post (FPTP) say ERS.
Today Labour should offer the LibDems a bill bringing in STV electoral reform without a referendum."
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