Dundee Liberal Democrats today (Saturday 19th May) backed calls by the Electoral Reform Society for the Single Transferable Vote (STV) system used in the Scottish council elections to be used in elections to the Scottish Parliament too.
"This month's local government elections have finally quashed the argument that STV is too complicated for voters to understand.
"With a much smaller total of rejected ballot papers in the council elections than in the Scottish Parliament elections, it is clear that having the same electoral system for both elections would have reduced significantly the problems we saw across Scotland."
Locally, here in Dundee, LibDem City Councillor for Strathmartine Wars, Cllr Helen Dick, said, "It simply makes sense to have the same electoral system for local and parliamentary elections in Scotland.