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Court may not have ordered a re-run…

Michael McFarland Campbell

…but local campaigners are doing just that this Saturday The result in the General Election in Fermanagh & South Tyrone (FST) could hardly have been closer. Both Michelle Gildernew (Sinn Féin) and Rodney Connor (Independent) got 45.5% of the vote back in May. With 4 votes between them the result was taken to a costly electoral court. Would a vote using the Alternative Vote (AV) have made the result any clearer? Would it have made a difference? Stephen Glenn, Northern Ireland Organiser, and the Yes to  Fairer Votes team will be running a re-run* of the FST parliamentary election by … Continue reading Court may not have ordered a re-run…

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FPTPvsAV – daily news about the campaign for fairer votes

Michael McFarland Campbell

Many people are working away for the Yes for Fairer Votes campaign up and down the country. Indeed I’m off to Enniskillen on Saturday with the NI campaign team. Some lucky few even get paid for it. Others of us are just working away getting the message out. One thing I can recommend is Paul Perrin‘s Electoral Reform FPTPvsAV paper on the Paper.li system. Now today I am quoted as a result of my article ERS bodges by numbers posted yesterday evening. Thank you very much to Paul for this. And keep up the good work*. * N.B. I am … Continue reading FPTPvsAV – daily news about the campaign for fairer votes

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