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Comment number 1.
At 19:05 5th Apr 2011, ArthurWaik wrote:Peter, This not AV. Yellow would not have made it to the second round of voting as it got the least 1st place votes (in this case none!).
As you will be aware ridicule is a powerful political weapon so perhaps you should be more careful as a representative of the unbiased BBC in what you suggest represents AV?
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Comment number 2.
At 10:20 6th Apr 2011, Peter Henley wrote:Well I called it Transferrable Vote, but to be honest I'm not sure what system they're using - it looks like Mr Spall made it up.
With just six voters I am certainly not suggesting this comedy clip is a faithful model of the system we're being asked to consider in the referendum.
I do agree that ridicule is a powerful political weapon so to remain unbiased I will look for an example of comedy FPTP. Any suggestions?
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