27 Jun 2011

Group launches campaign to get rid of voting system

4:53 pm on 27 June 2011

Opponents of the MMP voting system launched their anti-MMP campaign on Monday.

Opponents of the MMP voting system launched their anti-MMP campaign on Monday.

A referendum on the voting system will be held alongside this year's general election.

The referendum will first ask whether voters want to retain MMP or change to another system, and then it will give four other voting systems to choose from if voters opt for change. They are the First Past The Post, the Preferential Voting, the Single Transferrable Vote and the Supplementary Member systems.

The anti-MMP campaign, called Vote for Change, hasn't yet endorsed an alternative to MMP.

Its spokesperson, Jordan Williams, says it wants to wait until it has a large membership and then will work with its members to decide which voting system is the fairest.

The campaign's founding members include the former mayor of Waitakere, Bob Harvey and the former Labour MP, Michael Bassett.

Vote for Change is being funded by its members and individual supporters and says it is not party political.