local election results

No 'yes' or 'no' flyers through the post here, but I did see several big YES signs up around. So I'm guessing the organisation of the movement depends on the area.

Probably so, but if you're the LibDems, and this is your big chance to change the voting system to give your party an advantage (which is what I assume they believed, whether it's true or not), wouldn't you make sure your message got to everyone, and got to them several times? 

Instead, it looked like amateur hour.

(That's rhetorical; not aimed at you, Helen.    )

(That's rhetorical; not aimed at you, Helen.    )

I certainly hope not! 

But the response to the No vote in the headlines now (coming from the coalition) isn't 'well maybe we should try again, something else/a better alternative'...but rather, well that was the one chance for reform, people have spoken, done & dusted, move on.  When maybe it's just that people didn't like that particular option & they wanted something else to choose from?

This is why I would have voted yes, and I know other people who did vote yes, even though they weren't crazy about the proposal.

Sometimes, good enough is a place to start.  We'll just have to wait for another chance.

the sad thing is that had a coalition been possible between Labour and the Lib Dems, Brown had already agreed to a referendum for the vastly superior AV+ system, which combines alternative vote at the constituency level with top up seats based on vote percentage.