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January 19, 2006
Arbuthnott Commission report out today
From 11am, assuming the appropriate people are out of bed, the final report from the Arbuthnott Commission, which has been looking at the rich (complicated) world of Scottish electoral stuff will be up on their website, here.
I'll have a quick look at some point today and report anything exciting. In the meantime, an ERS press release from yesterday about what it hopes will be in the report.
UPDATE: It appears the Arbuthnott chaps were only about 15 minutes late getting up... early indications (i.e. the summary) show that they recommend tweaking the current system, because STV is just too darn complicated, although STV is good enough for European elections, and should be introduced. Far be it for me to comment negatively on this great body of work which I haven't yet read, but is a voting system whose biggest problem is that it makes it slightly trickier to work out how votes translate into seats really worse than one whose biggest problem is intra-parliament bickering leading to more time arguing and less time serving the electorate?
UPDATE 2: BBC Report
Posted by pauldavies on January 19, 2006
