More on AV

Further to my post on AV, another brief point.

If you think that an MP should have the broadest support possible among the electorate, and that this matters more than who is first choice for the largest number of people, then you should not support AV.

AV favours the second, third and subsequent preferences of the voters whose first choice is least popular. (Because second and subsequent preferences are transferred from the bottom, and not at all from the top.) Why should those voters be favoured over the others?!

The system you should support would see voters giving candidates a certain number of points, and then the candidate with the highest number of points winning.