Voting

It's referendum day, so I wheeled Islay up to the community centre early to vote.
It's been interesting to see people actually discussing political ideas around town in the few days before the elections.
Yesterday Edward Wakeling, the Alice in Wonderland expert who lives locally, came into the shop, and ended up discussing AV voting with me and another customer. He said that AV voting was invented by Lewis Carroll! Apparently the voting at Lewis Carroll's Oxford college was seen to be unfair, so Lewis Carroll, who was actually a mathematician in his day job, worked out a fairer system.
And this evening, at Stitch and Bitch, most of us supported AV - Ros has had actual experience of using AV in New Zealand, and says it works really well there - and a couple of others were worried that it might let extremists in by accident.
So now we wait and see....