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Is this going to be decided by the pure number of votes, or is it separated by region and the number of regions is what will decide the result?

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Pure number of votes. THough the regions will declare separately, it's the net remain vs leave votes overall that matter.

A sane voting scheme...unlike what we have in the USA. IMAO of course, but I'm so A about it I don't care.

Dunno. Simple majority votes that change the legislative process (London vs Brussels writing laws) seems less than sane to me.

Don't worry, in all of our normal elections it is insane.

There was an opportunity to fix the insanity in an earlier referendum. Such a wasted opportunity.

Probably the saddest referendum result in my lifetime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_Alternative_Vot...

I'm a big fan of reforming the electoral system in the UK, but the AV referendum was an awful fudge at best, plainly just offered as a sop to the Liberal Democrats.

It was genuinely one of the worst referendum campaigns of all time though. I'm still haunted by the 'if you vote for this then babies will die' adverts.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/feb/25/no-to-...

That would have just brought UKIP into government with the Tories faster and accelerated the process.

The Alternative Vote was a stupid suggestion in any case. (A similar system doesn't work too well in Australia.)

Something like Approval Voting or even better range voting would have been worth it.

http://www.rangevoting.org/

Referendums in the US are based on popular vote as well.

Elections, however, are not based on popular vote.

All elections are based on popular vote in the US, except the presidential election, which is based on electoral votes.

Here's some more information about how the votes are counted: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36044026

Pure number of votes. This is a referendum, not an election.

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