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3 September 2010
International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance »
Read the organisation's Annual Report for 2009...
3 September 2010
Political and Constitutional Reform Committee's invitation for views on Bill proposals »
Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill and the Fixed-term Parliaments Bill - AEA's formal response to the Committee's invitation...
3 September 2010
Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill and the Fixed-term Parliaments Bill »
AEA's formal comments on the proposals published in these Bills...
2 September 2010
Question on further Welsh Assembly powers 'confusing' »
The wording of the proposed question for next year's referendum on further Assembly powers should be redrafted, says the Electoral Commission...
2 September 2010
Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill 2010 »
Report from the British Academy Policy Centre - 'Drawing a New Constituency Map for the UK'...
26 August 2010
Yes to AV campaign 'will be fun', say organisers »
The campaign to ditch Britain's first-past-the-post electoral system in favour of the Alternative Vote will be "fun", its organisers have promised...
24 August 2010
Taxpayers' Alliance chief to head off electoral reform »
Vocal activist vows to fight push for alternative vote system...(The Guardian)
24 August 2010
Nick Clegg says coalition will survive if he loses alternative vote referendum »
Liberal Democrat leader says electoral reform is not his 'sole purpose in life' and that he cares more about social mobility...(The Guardian)
18 August 2010
Elections chaos: higher voter turnout was not biggest problem »
Post election post mortem leads to calls for Government to make legal changes to avoid another voting fiasco...(Hackney Citizen)
16 August 2010
Mundell in court after Sunday Herald's expenses probe »
David Mundell, Scotland's only Conservative MP, is heading for court after the Sunday Herald exposed a potential criminal error in his General Election spending...
16 August 2010
Voting on new home schemes 'could tear villages apart' »
Government plans to hold local referendums on new housing schemes in England could tear village communities apart, rural campaigners have said...
12 August 2010
Mark Harper backs first-past-the-post »
Minister charged with referendum on electoral reform personally opposes a switch to alternative voting...(Guardian)
12 August 2010
AV referendum may test coalition to destruction »
Junior coalition partners in Britain have often split or got swallowed up when they become expendable...(Guardian)
11 August 2010
AEA Issues Paper »
Number 1: The combination of polls on 5 May 2011 and possible postponement of the polls at the parish/town council elections in England in 2011...
9 August 2010
MPs 'denied enough time to study electoral reform bill' »
Newly created political and constitutional reform committee complains that it was only given two days to study proposals for referendum on alternative vote...
9 August 2010
Greens target Norwich after court ruling on new elections »
The Green Party are hoping to win the majority of seats on a city council for the first time as they gear up for local elections in Norwich...(Ekklesia.co.uk)
9 August 2010
Post election MORI poll »
Findings of the post-election survey carried out for the Electoral Commission by Ipsos MORI, following the general and English local elections on 6 May 2010...
6 August 2010
This new politics of the coalition has been oversold »
The alternative vote system of elections is about the most unloved way of electing politicians in the world...(London Evening Standard)
6 August 2010
GMB and the alternative vote »
GMB is likely to campaign for no vote if referendum on alternative vote system for general election takes place next year...(ePolitix.com)