Elections: Alternative Vote System

Lord Peston Excerpts

Tuesday 3rd May 2011 Lords Chamber

[Lord McNally]

I often think that getting the right result is better than getting quick results. Even if it takes the Australians two weeks to get the right result, that is still the right way to do it.

[Lord Peston]

My Lords, is the Minister aware that electronic voting system machinery is irrelevant because elections under AV, which I sincerely hope we do not have, would not be decided by the electoral process at all? They would be decided in smoke-filled rooms. The equipment required would be the equipment needed to fumigate those rooms.

[Lord McNally]

The interest of this House in voting systems never fails to fascinate me, particularly from Members who will run a mile from voting for this House.