don’t let NO2AV use the tactics of the bully anymore

In the week when ~~NO2AV~~ DOH2AV stooped so low that they used a picture of a very sick child in an advertising campaign of their own – which no doubt someone was paid quite handsomely – they decide that their ‘weekly reason to vote X NO’ is:

Millions wasted on voter education literature and advertising

Is it a waste of money to ensure that the general public and citizens of the United Kingdom are educated on why their representatives in Parliament have voted to allow a Referendum to change how MPs are elected to the House of Commons?

It seems that NO2AV is quite happy to spend lots of money on this and yet fail to come up with real arguments. Even HM Treasury is now saying that the NO camp have got it wrong on the cost of elections with there being no need for counting machines.

The machines were central to the claim by the No to AV lobby that the change would cost £250m. “With families facing tough times can we really afford to spend a quarter of a billion pounds of taxpayers’ money [on] a new voting system?” a spokesman said.

The Electoral Commission insists there are no plans for counting machines, which are not used in Australia where AV has been in use for decades to elect the lower house of parliament. But No to AV has seized on the revelation that a division of the Electoral Reform Society, which has given £1m to the Yes campaign, is also a commercial supplier of election services, including counting machines, which could benefit from a change in the voting system. (The Independent)

I’m voting Yes on May 5th – if you want to make sure that our MPs work harder for our votes, that the big money backers of the ~~NO2AV~~ DOH2AV camp don’t get to keep the voting system that had no post, despite them saying it does, and is ultimately unfair with (usually) more than 50% of the voters not voting for the winner, join me in saying