Last Night of Voting for POWER 2010 Pledge
Guest post by Guy Aitchison
POWER2010 is entering the final stretch of its public vote to find the very top ideas that will fix UK politics.
With over 4,000 ideas submitted, boiled down to a list of 29 by the deliberations of a representative sample of the UK, and then opened up to the public vote, almost 100,000 votes have been cast in just under 5 weeks.
There’s now just a matter of hours left to have your say.
The 5 ideas with most support come midnight tonight will become the POWER Pledge and the backbone of a major campaign, reaching across the UK, to pressure every candidate in every constituency to back reform.
Proportional representation is currently topping the leaderboard with well over 11,000 votes, with Scrap ID cards and Rollback State Databases not far behind. The race is tight for 3rd, 4th and 5th, place, meanwhile, with An Elected Second Chamber, English Votes on English Laws, A written Constitution and Fixed Term Parliaments bunched at around 6,000 votes. Not far behind are more populist reforms like Right to Recall and None of the Above, which could easily make it on to the Pledge with a last-minute surge.
POWER2010, a campaign backed by the Rowntree Trusts, is set to be the largest third-party campaign at the coming election with volunteers and full-time organisers around the country.
Be sure to have your say on the final pledge before voting closes tonight!
http://www.power2010.org.uk/votes
