Your thoughts on your vote...

[English assassin]

EA, simply put in first past the post, the person whose vote does not go for the winner in their district is quite literally a waste. They are unrepresented. The winner of that election only represents those who voted for him.

Woah, wait up. That will happen at some point and level in any system of democracy you care to devise. Suppose you have nationwide PR. There are 100 MPs, and the national vote is 40% tory, 40% labour, 20% Lib Dem. so each gets that number of MPs. Then in the very first vote in Parliament, the labour and Lib dem MPs gang up and outvote the tories 60:40. Could the 40% of the country that voted tory complain their votes were a waste?

Same thing would happen if every law was the subject of a nationwide referendum.

In any system of democracy, at some point those who voted for the less popular option don't get what they want. First past the post is no better or worse than any other system. The point of democracy is you get to express your opinion, not that you get what you want.

With the new electronic voting systems, we don't get that option, unfortunately.

Take post it notes in with you and leave a message on the screen for the next voter. You need to think laterally here, dude...