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'You just don't need voting machines for AV': Jo Swinson explains why AV is not the perfect system, but an improvement on what we have now

April 20, 2011 10:18 AM

swinson• [Apr 18] Amber Elliott writes: WHY did you decide to join Yes?

Jo Swinson: I was really concerned about the unfairness of our voting system, long before I even got involved in politics and joined the Liberal Democrats. That came from growing up in a constituency where it didn't matter what you did, whether you voted or not frankly, because Labour would always get in. And it just seemed to me that this was a crazy way to have a voting system. So actually one of the things that attracted me to the Liberal Democrats alongside other polices was their belief in a proportional representation system . .

• 'You just don't need voting machines for AV' [Amber Elliott Total Politics Apr 18]

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