A pleasant morning for a stroll down to the polling station and no queues to wait in as the officials processed a steady stream of voters. At mid-morning, of course, most were older, retired folks like me. I expect those with jobs either called in on the way to work or will drop in afterwards. Hopefully the turn out will be reasonable.
As I was voting in the referendum on AV I startled the official by asking if I should mark the "yes" and "no" options with a 1 and a 2 to express my preference. It took him a couple of seconds to realise I was pulling his leg.
There was a joke buzzing around a couple of weeks ago which consoled the losing side that once their second preference was taken into account the referendum would end in a draw so there was no need to worry.
Certainly in recent days the academics have been suggesting that most of the claims the two campaigns have been spouting have little basis in reality and that, in fact, AV would make very little difference to outcomes. If they are right then why are we wasting money on a referendum?
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