Do you want to continue with first-past-the-post?

Published: 13 May, 2011

• I WAS surprised that the wording for the referendum vote was listed on the ballot paper as Yes – No rather than No – Yes. 

As far as I know ballot papers are always listed alphabetically so it should have been worded No – Yes. 

It is a known fact that candidates who are listed alphabetically higher do better than those listed lower. 

There is a tendency to go to the top of the page. 

I wanted to vote No and only just prevented myself from putting my X in the Yes box. Perhaps the wording should have been: “Do you want to continue with the current voting system of first-past-the-post?”

JOHN MACDONALD, Address supplied