The prospect of AV fills me with dread.
Why?
I work on the count after the polls close.
Sorting ballot papers for a local election has us there to at least 1AM (the polls close at 10PM, the first boxes start to arrive 20 minutes later).
Last year's General Election had us there to 4AM.
The candidates and their agents can see from the piles of papers, whose pile is biggest. They don't feel the need to ask for a recount.
How in hell do you verify who the actual winners are with AV?
We would be there for days instead of hours.
I can't bear it!