British voters are highly trained individuals capable if binary thinking. They are not designed to be capable of thinking further than a simple binary process and more complex thinking processes have to remain in the safe hands of the British parliamentary parties, after all that is what MP's are for. The AV would introduce the same thing as additional digits into the process which could lead to far too complicated decision processes. When it comes to decisions they can only handle tossing a coin, e'g' heads or tails. Anything more complex such as using numbers would remind them of rolling a dice thus look like a random process leading to a constitutional crisis. This is why the referendum vote was kept deliberately simple as the British voter already unable to grasp the concept of an alternative vote could not be given any other choice for even more voting systems, let alone to rank them in the order of preference. That would make the voting last at least a week which we cannot afford.
Unfortunately the article on voting systems in wikipedia was too complicated to understand for the average British voter to make up their mind, particularly as there was no chapter on alternative voting(or Clegging)unless you look at the small print. To call it a runoff vote was feared to remind the voters that MP's might run off with the electorate's money and their fraudulent expenses.
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AV fails first past the post test in first past the post voting
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