Sentence examples for alternative voting system from inspiring English sources

So Brown wants electoral reform with the alternative voting system (AV).

The referendum on an alternative voting system was not, as anticipated, so much a conversation about the merits of first past the post.

Treating voters like idiots doesn't often work – so the posters with a picture of a sick baby, saying, "She needs a new cardiac facility not an alternative voting system", or of the soldier, reading, "He needs bulletproof vests, not an alternative voting system", must surely be an insult too far to the public's intelligence.

But apart from the odd nudge and wink about an alternative voting system there is little to excite voters whose increasingly common response is to shrug and say of their elected representatives, "They're all as bad as each other".

Smith's decision to stand could risk splitting the vote against Corbyn unless either he or Eagle pulls out at some stage, although there is an alternative voting system that counts second preferences.

Brown said at Labour's conference that a referendum on electoral reform and the alternative voting system used in Australia would be in the manifesto and held early in the next parliament.

He describes alternative voting systems known as Approval, Range, Cumulative, Condorcet and Instant-Runoff voting.

Alternative voting systems have been suggested over the years, but objections have been raised to those as well.

It includes subjects like voting rights acts, direct democracy by way of ballot initiatives, the history and function of the Electoral College, campaign financing and alternative voting systems.

Gary Marx, executive director of the conservative Judicial Confirmation Network, said he saw a playbook for the campaign against Judge Sotomayor in the successful attacks on Lani Guinier, whose 1993 nomination to a top Justice Department post was withdrawn after an outcry over her writings arguing for alternative voting systems intended to better represent minorities.

Mr Farage has not yet declared which of the many alternative voting systems he would favour, but any more proportional system would be likely to give him and other smaller parties a boost.