But AV was all that Labour or the Tories would accept by way of electoral reform and at least offered the promise of extra Lib Dem seats.
然而,即排序复选制是工党和保守党唯一能接受的选举革新方式,并且至少给予自民党拥有更多席位的希望。
AV would not be a disaster, but it would not be an improvement either; and although we are reformers by instinct, we do not believe in change for change's sake.
选择性投票不是一场灾难,但也并非一次改进;尽管我们是天生的改革派,但我们也不赞同为了改革而改革。
Under AV voters would be invited to rank candidates on the ballot in order of preference.
采用选择投票制选民可在选票上根据喜好程度为候选人排序。
They are right that AV would probably favour consensus-seeking, centrist candidates.
他们是正确的,选择投票制很可能有利于寻求共识、走温和路线的候选人。
To date, AV has delivered more than 8,000 small unmanned aircraft.
到目前为止,航空环境公司已提供8000多架小型无人机。
Indeed, some experts say AV would sometimes be less proportional than FPTP, if the make-up of the resulting parliament is measured against the first-preference votes cast for each party.
事实上,有些专家认为,如果把选举结果跟各政党获第一选择的候选人比起来,顺位投票制在有些时候并不如简单多数选举制具比例性。
AV is not proportional representation.
「选择投票制」不是比例代议制。
The Electoral Reform Society, a pressure group, points out that AV can produce results as perverse as first-past-the-post.
选举革新会,作为一个压力集团,指出选择投票制会产生和「得票多者当选」同样不利的结果。
The experience in Australia, which has used AV since 1918, suggests that it would not be a disaster.The system is not widely disliked;indeed, it is not an issue.
澳大利亚于1918年采用选择投票制,经验显示该制度不会以灾难收场,不会引起广泛的反感,事实上,该制度不会引起大问题。
Some Yes campaigners admit that AV has flaws but argue that changing the system once will make future changes easier.
部分支持者在承认选择投票制有缺陷的同时争辩道对投票体系做一次改变将会使未来的改变更易进行。
Indeed, in a landslide, AV can exaggerate the swing to the winning party.
确实,选择投票制会压倒性的夸大优胜党的势力范围。
Labour offered to enact AV and conduct a referendum on a much more proportional system, the single transferable vote (STV).
工党建议通过选择投票制,并实行一种更多比例制的公投制度——单一可转移票制(STV)。
Scrapping the first-past-the-post system has been an article of faith for his party for decades, even if AV falls far short of the full proportional representation favoured by Liberal Democrats.
自民党几十年来都想要废除最高票者当选的制度,即便备择性选举离自民党推举的比例代表制还有很大一段距离。