Worried your vote does not count?
You should be.
Confused by Proportional Representation, STV and AV?
You are not alone!
The Relay System is a 'Fully Representative' system using weighted voting, which updates and improves the existing
electoral system 'First Past the Post', by applying three easy steps, to give the most representative electoral system
yet.
Using the Relay System in a General election you the electorate would vote no differently than you do now,
electing your MP for your constituency.
Then
once the results are in and have been counted.
Step one; each party is allocated all the votes cast
for their unsuccessful candidates at a general election to be divided amongst the party's successful candidates, now MPs,
equally as 'Party Votes'.
Step two; add the 'Party Votes' allocated to the MPs to the 'Constituency
Votes' they each received from their own constituency at the general election, to give each MP a 'Total Block Vote'.
Step three; MPs use their 'Total Block Vote' whenever 'Divisions' are called for in the House of
Commons and the MPs vote.
We meed electoral reform because governments in the 21st century will need to
make far more difficult policy decisions concerning security, the environment and the future welfare of it's citizens
than ever before. For these policies to succeed, government will need the consent and support of the population and to obtain
this governments will need to be recognized as being fairly elected and representative.
The Labour government
elected to govern the United Kingdom in the 2005 election had only 36% of the aggregate vote but had a majority of 66 in the
House of Commons and governed until 2010, even though they barely had the votes of one in five of those eligible to vote in
the UK. On average 25,858 votes were required to elect a Labour MP and 44,241 for a Conservative MP whilst a Liberal Democrat
MP required 98,484 votes!
This is not a fair and representative government!
With the Relay System, Conservatives retain the 'First Past the Post' system the public know
and trust, we would retain the constituency link to our MP and the way we vote would not change. Whilst Liberals would in
effect have 'Proportional Representation' because the way in which the results are used. Labour would not have to
worry about 'Boundary Changes' as the Relay System holds equal all the electorate's potential votes regardless
of their location, the size of their constituency and the demographics of their party's supporters.
So virtually
all the electorate's votes would count rather than just be counted!
