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yes to fairer votes

16 May 2011

Public will still back real voting reform, says Lucas

Green Party leader Caroline Lucas has urged campaigners not to give up on radical voting reform, as inquests into the recent AV referendum defeat continue.
8 May 2011

Political reformers reflect on huge anti-AV referendum vote

Reformers say that the case for voting, parliamentary and political reform in Britain remains strong, despite the setback in the AV referendum on 5 May
5 May 2011

AV Referendum debate: a full timeline

For the last 15 months, Ryan Gallagher has here been chronicling the debate around the Alternative Vote (AV) referendum for OurKingdom, the UK section of the groundbreaking openDemocracy website and forum.
5 May 2011

Can differential turnout overcome the polls and deliver a 'Yes'?

There was a tremendously good ‘Yes to Fairer Votes’ rally last night. We sat in the raked theatre of the Royal Institution where the great 19th century experiments were tested that opened the way to the modern era. Will we be so lucky with the British voting system?
5 May 2011

'Yes, we need a better politics', say Fairer Votes campaigners

Fairer votes campaigners from all parties and none have called upon people across Britain to vote for improving politics and to reject negativity in today's AV poll.
14 Apr 2011

Vote against the BNP by voting 'yes' to AV, say reformers

Billy Bragg joined forces with black activist Simon Woolley on 13 April to launch a new anti-BNP poster for the 'Yes to Fairer Votes' campaign.
3 Apr 2011

Yes on 5 May means challenging 'business as usual', says campaign

"I don't want to wake up after 5 May and find out it’s business as usual at Westminster," said Eddie Izzard at the official launch of Yes to Fairer Votes.
31 Mar 2011

Faith leaders refute 'extremism' scaremongering over voting reform

People of different faiths and none have united behind Yes to Fairer Votes, after anti-AV campaigners claimed voting reform would encourage extremists.
28 Feb 2011

AV: debate and propaganda

What are the distinguishing points of a campaign and a debate? Surely that the former facilitates the latter. It seems that the 'No to AV' grouping haven't quite got that sorted.
2 Feb 2011

Bishops, AV and a depressing dose of 'naysaying'

A very interesting debate has been going on about the Alternative Vote in the last 24 hours, since ten Church of England bishops (three of them retired) came out in support of an empowering reform of the system at the upcoming referendum on 5 May 2011.

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