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• Ministers urged to promise early ballot on voting reform

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Cabinet supporters of an early referendum on reform of the voting system for the Westminster parliament will tomorrow renew their efforts to commit Labour to include an early ballot in legislation certain to be passed before next years general election. If ministers at the cabinets democratic renewal committee (DRC) ...
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• Lord Roberts writes … Our Electoral System – not fit for purpose

  
  Liberal Democrat Voice — Authority: 478
  The need to reform the Electoral System was underlined by a number of us on the Liberal Democrat benches in the House of Lords.The possibility of it being included in the Queen’s Speech was always minimal but we dared to hope.. We are still living in an age with a system that goes back 200 years. We are trying to ...
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• UNDP Consultant Advocates Some Proportional Representation in Nigeria

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 451
  As Nigerian legislators are working to review and amend the Nigerian 1999 constitution, a UNDP consultant, Professor Sam Egwu, has advocated the inclusion of proportional representation in the constitution to cater for special interests of minorities, women and the disabled. Delivering a paper, entitled ...
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• Veteran human rights campaigner calls for same-sex marriage in Scotland

  
  Deadline Press & Picture Agency — Authority: 578
  By Oliver Farrimond VETERAN human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell has called on Alex Salmond and the SNP administration to legalise same-sex civil marriage in Scotland. He also condemned the “disproportionate influence” of the Catholic Church on the Scottish Government, saying that church leaders were “out ...
  2 weeks ago

• Electoral reform: Change or decay

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  The government is running out of time. There are, it is estimated, 40 legislating days between the Queens speech on Wednesday and the general election next May. The address from the throne could seal its fate, if it chooses to stick to the draft legislative programme and hunker down to protect its achievements. ...
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• Iceland considers changes to voting rules

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 510
  Bjorgvin G. Sigurdsson, Icelandic Social Democrat MP, intends to submit a bill to parliament which would see the country changed from six parliamentary voting districts into just one. Sigurdsson told Bylgjan Radio that he has written a draft bill and sent it to the leaders of all the parties represented in the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Proposals Certain to go Nowhere Fast: On Ongoing Series

  
  CalgaryGrit — Authority: 527
  Michael Byers has an interesting proposal in today’s Toronto Star , getting a bit of attention. Here are the key points: There is only one surefire way to prevent a Harper majority [ ED NOTE: …other than, you know, the opposition parties getting their act together ]. The Liberals and NDP should agree to not ...
  4 weeks ago

• Could a vote for the BNP be a good thing?

  
  A National Conversation For England — Authority: 107
  For the avoidance of doubt, I am not a BNP supporter. I despise their racism, xenophobia and Islamophobia. However, I agree with some of their key policies: restrictions to immigration, withdrawal of the UK from the EU, withdrawal of British troops from Afghanistan, and more accountable local and regional democracy. ...
  5 weeks ago

• Analysis: Why NZ dropped First Past The Post Electoral System

  
  pacificEyeWitness.org — Authority: 146
  In 1993 New Zealanders voted in a referendum to change their voting system from the traditional first-past-the-post (FPP) method to Mixed Member Proportional representation (MMP). Criticism of the voting system intensified after the 1978 and 1981 elections. On each occasion the Labour opposition actually secured more ...
  5 weeks ago

• Tom Friedman steals my idea

  
  The Democratic Piece — Authority: 412
  At least I’d like to think so. Here’s the key language: Specifically, the Obama team needs to make sure that Iraq’s bickering politicians neither postpone the next elections, scheduled for January, nor hold them on the basis of the 2005 “closed list” system that is dominated by the party leaders. We must ...
  5 weeks ago

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