The Tories electoral reform and why it smells dodgy

We all knew it was going to be a hung parliament. And once again, the exit poll got it pretty much bang on, despite initial scepticism because of the Lib Dem losses.

So what happened for Clegg? Did he peak too early? Actually, the answer is pretty simple. While the Lib Dems lost seats, they gained votes.

In the last general election, 2005, the Lib Dems won 5,985,414 votes. This time around, they won 6,827,938 votes. That's about a million more. But sadly, due to our electoral process, they didn't translate into seats. You can see why the Lib Dems are crying for electoral reform, and why they're supported in this by at least 20,000 Britons.

As we all know, David Cameron, having fallen short of an overall majority, has extended a thinly veiled hand of desperation to the Liberal Democrats, who worryingly might accept. Despite Nick Clegg's pre-election pledge to not form a coalition with anyone who opposed electoral reform, he's been busy in meetings all day with his MPs and peers to discuss an alliance.

And the Tories, graciously, have said they will "consider" possible election reforms.
Here's Cameron's idea.
And here's why it's bullshit.
If he manages to sell this to anyone as fair, he deserves a medal. Albeit a 'conniving bastard of the year' medal.

The Big Idea: Every constituency will have the same number of voters in. Therefore, all your votes will count for one (if you live in Hertfordshire, as I do, your votes will count for 0.1 at the moment). Sounds ideal, right? Wrong. Think carefully about what he's proposing.

Think of a constituency, which has for conveniences sake, 300 voters. Now imagine three candidates are standing - Candidates A, B, and C. They all get an exactly equal share, 100 votes each. It's a tie. Now, imagine one prospective Candidate A voter changes his mind, and votes for Candidate B. So our votes read 29, 31, 30. This means that Candidate B wins the seat. Even though effectively two thirds of the constituency has voted against him. He then goes onto the House of Commons.

Sound familiar? That's because this is basically our current voting system.

Cameron is trying to decieve voters in the most underhand, outright, manipulative way, and it disgusts me.