The lies of No2AV
So I went to the No2AV website, and clicked on the link entitled "Why vote no" to see what reasons they've cooked up. Let's take a look: AV is costly They argue, as they keep arguing, that AV will cost up to an additional £250 million: "Local councils would have to waste money on costly electronic vote counting machines and expensive voter education campaigns." What about the extra £800 million they'll also have to spend on red carpets, gold-trimmed ballot papers and free meringue and strawberries served to voters as the booths? What about those? Yes, of course, there's no such cost, because they won't be used. No-one said they would need to be used. They harp on about how Australia is the only other country to use AV to vote in the lower house, but they conveniently ignore the fact that Australia doesn't even use electronic voting machines. "With ordinary families facing tough times can we really afford to spend a quarter of a bill...