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5 days left to cast your votes…

17.02.2010 // by Guy Aitchison

There's just five days left to take part in the POWER2010 vote to decide which are the top ideas to breathe life into our tired democracy.

Remember, it's the top five reforms that will become the Power Pledge - a tool for voters in constituencies across the country to get their candidates to commit to reform.

The vote has generated lots of interest and discussion, both on the web and offline, and nearly 100,000 votes have now been cast.

Introduce a proportional voting system and Scrap ID cards and the database state are currently top of the leaderboard by a fair way with both reforms pushing 10,000 votes.

It's an exciting race for the 3rd, 4th and 5th spots, meanwhile, with A written Constitution, an Elected second chamber and Fixed Term Parliaments bunched at around 4,400 votes each.

We've seen lots of movement in the past few days, as online votes are cast and more paper votes are registered, and there could yet be some dramatic changes in store.

English Votes on English Laws enjoys solid support - as of 5.30pm on Wednesday it has 4,273 votes, just shy of the top five.

Whilst Right to recall, Expanding Freedom of Information, A None of the Above option and Stronger Local Government could yet make it on to the Pledge too - it would only take a small surge in the last few days to put them in there.

If you haven't yet voted, please do so today. The bigger the vote, the bigger our mandate when we approach politicians. You have until midnight on February 22nd!