Schedule 10 — The alternative vote system: further amendments

Part of Cheques – in the House of Commons at 8:30 pm on 2 November 2010.

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Photo of Alan Reid Alan Reid Liberal Democrat, Argyll and Bute 8:30, 2 November 2010

The right hon. Gentleman mentions the Gould report. The problems in the Scottish elections in 2007 were caused because the Labour Government decided to have a ballot paper on which people had to put two crosses in two separate columns. If he had read the Gould report, he would know that that was what caused the problem. In this case, there will be three ballot papers and people will have to put an X on each of them. That is far simpler. Clearly he has not read the Gould report.