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Make Votes Matter North Cumbria @mvmnorthcumbria.bsky.social · 23d

We wanted to mark this in the actual Market Cross location.

The suffragist Great Pilgrimage is a great example of different types of people coming together to effect positive democratic change.

We need to do the same now more than ever.

#DemocracyDay #PRnow

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Make Votes Matter North Cumbria @mvmnorthcumbria.bsky.social · 23d

Britain's democracy is in crisis. Our First Past the Post voting system increasingly delivers results that have little to do with what the country wants.

This #DemocracyDay, we're calling for a fairer system where every vote counts.

It's time for Proportional Representation. #PRnow

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MVM Warrington @mvmwarrington1.bsky.social · 25d

We are all getting set along with MVM Sefton and West Lancs and MVM Manchester to engage with the public at the Wigan Diggers Festival on Fair Votes. #PRnow #ProportionalRepresentation

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Make Votes Matter North Cumbria @mvmnorthcumbria.bsky.social · Aug 30

All set up in #Brampton.

Lots of interest and some signups already 🙂.

#MakeVotesMatter #ProportionalRepresentation #EqualVotesNow

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Get PR Done! @getprdone.bsky.social · Jul 31

"You know what's going to come out of all this? - An end to the First Past the Post electoral system." 💪 #GetPRDone

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MVM Warrington @mvmwarrington1.bsky.social · Aug 10

We have today been present in Chester, engaging with the public and making the case for a fairer and more proportional voting system. #Chester #PRnow #ProportionalRepresentation

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MVM Warrington @mvmwarrington1.bsky.social · Aug 10

We are today in Chester making the case for a fairer voting system where every vote counts equally. #Chester #PRnow #ProportionalRepresentation

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MVM Warrington @mvmwarrington1.bsky.social · Aug 10

We are today in Chester making the case for a fairer voting system. #Chester #PRnow #ProportionalRepresentation

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Roger "Woj" Cracknell @wojathome.bsky.social · Jul 27

It won't.
Under PR he'd need to get 50+% of the votes to get into power (on his own).
Under FPTP he'd only need ~33%, just like Labour did last year!!!
And should another party agree to go into coalition with him, his policies would be diluted accordingly.

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Make Votes Matter @makevotesmatter.bsky.social · Jul 6

At the pub after another busy day of campaigning.

Our new beer mats are being put to good use! #PRnow

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MVM Warrington @mvmwarrington1.bsky.social · Jul 5

youtu.be/nSPWtaOGvcE?...
#PRnow

How to make votes matter more?

YouTube video by Observations Podcast

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MVM East London @mvmeastlondon.bsky.social · Jul 4

Scarlett Maguire highlighting how Labour only got a third of the vote and that next election will be very unpredictable due to First-past-the-post.

#PRNow

Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · Jul 4

How threat from the left could hurt Labour – polling expert explains
www.channel4.com/news/how-thr...

How threat from the left could hurt Labour – polling expert explains

We spoke to the polling expert and opinion analyst Scarlett Maguire.

www.channel4.com

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MVM - Totnes & South Devon @mvm-totnes.bsky.social · Jul 4

Great turnout for our #PRnow action this morning in #Totnes.

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MVM Warrington @mvmwarrington1.bsky.social · Jul 4

It is great to see Make Votes Matter Campaigners get the message out up and down the country. The state of our politics is simply unacceptable. #PRnow
www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/2529032...

York campaigners call for change to ‘our dysfunctional voting system’

www.yorkpress.co.uk

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MVM Warrington @mvmwarrington1.bsky.social · Jul 4

It has been one year since the most disproportionate General Election in history. We are engaging with the Warrington public on the very worrying state of British Democracy. #PRnow

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MVM Warrington @mvmwarrington1.bsky.social · Jul 4

Today we will be outside Warrington Town Hall taking photos with our banners from 5pm. Due to changes in the weather forecast we will then hold a Street Stall outside the Bus Station, which will start around 5.45pm. #PRnow

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MVM Warrington @mvmwarrington1.bsky.social · Jun 21

We had a productive few hours in Chester City Centre earlier today spreading the word about Fair Votes. #PRnow

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MVM Warrington @mvmwarrington1.bsky.social · Jun 19

We will be in Chester this coming Saturday between 10.30am and 12.30pm engaging with the public on Fair Votes. #PRnow

MVM Warrington @mvmwarrington1.bsky.social · Jun 5

We are working towards setting up a new group in Chester. On Saturday 21st June we will be running a Street Stall in Chester, at the junction of Northgate Street and St Werburgh Street, close to the Cathedral and the Town Hall. Time will be 10.30am-12.30pm. #PRnow

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Make Votes Matter in South West London @swlmvm.bsky.social · Jun 7

WELCOME to MVM North Cumbria
Give them a follow. 😀
@mvmnorthcumbria.bsky.social

a man is riding a segway in an office with the words welcome aboard below him

ALT: a man is riding a segway in an office with the words welcome aboard below him

media.tenor.com

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Make Votes Matter in South West London @swlmvm.bsky.social · Jun 7

👋 THANK YOU for hosting us #Tooting.
Let’s change politics forever with Proportional representation.
#MakeVotesMatter

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misterapb.bsky.social @misterapb.bsky.social · Jun 7

Approaching 1 year since the most disproportional general election result in our history...

In whatever way you can: #KeepMovingForPR !!

(bumped into Woking MP
@willforster.bsky.social at Woking ParkRun this morning😊)

💥No more FPTP
💥Proportional Representation now

@makevotesmatter.bsky.social

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MVM Warrington @mvmwarrington1.bsky.social · Jun 5

We are working towards setting up a new group in Chester. On Saturday 21st June we will be running a Street Stall in Chester, at the junction of Northgate Street and St Werburgh Street, close to the Cathedral and the Town Hall. Time will be 10.30am-12.30pm. #PRnow

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MVM Warrington @mvmwarrington1.bsky.social · May 28

Sunday 8th June as the 2nd Sunday of the month will be Market Day in Warrington. We will be running a Street Stall close by on Buttermarket Street from 11am to 1pm. #ProportionalRepresentation

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Make Votes Matter @makevotesmatter.bsky.social · May 6

"What is one policy that you would like to make law if you could just snap your fingers?"

"Proportional Representation," says @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Enough About Me podcast with Lewis Brown.

"Everyone's vote should count" 👏👏👏

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Proportional Commons @propvoting.bsky.social · May 5

Given the interest in the local elections and "the end of two-party politics" in the UK, perhaps now would be a good time to remind people about proportional recounts and what they tell us? 👇

Can you please repost this to reach as many people as we can? Thanks.

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Proportional Commons @propvoting.bsky.social · Dec 8

How to read @propvoting.bsky.social charts:

The top two bars show the result in the Commons. Equal bars mean equal numbers of MPs from the parties.

The bottom two bars show the proportional recount. Equal bars mean equal numbers of people who voted for the parties.

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This chart is a proportional recount of a vote in the House of Commons.

The top two bars show the number of MPs from each party who voted Aye or No in the division.

The bottom two bars show the number of voters those MPs represent. For example, if a party won two million votes in the general election and half of that party's MPs voted in the division, that would represent one million voters.

In many cases, more voters are represented by the MPs on the losing side. This is because seats don't match votes with First Past the Post (FPTP). Recounts are shown in terms of ideal MPs who all represent the same number of people.

The method is not a simulation of a PR elected Commons. It is intended to highlight the distortion of FPTP.

For more details, see the FAQ: https://tinyurl.com/4hxyc8e7

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