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- What should be the question on the ballot paper?
- Multiple options are likely, rather than a yes/no choice.
- Remain would have to be an option.
- In order to ensure the pro-Brexit vote is not split (with two options for Leave but only one for Remain), a "preferential' voting system would be essential, with voters ranking the three options in order of preference.
Less than 48 hours since The Independent launched a petition to call for a referendum on the Brexit deal, 275,000 have signed. The latest polling from YouGov also shows that more people want a referendum than don’t. But there is an unanswered question – and it’s something The Independent resolved to discuss in the coming weeks and months: what should be the question on the ballot paper?
As we wrote in the initial editorial laying out our thinking on the campaign, there is a good reason why that can’t be finalised today: we don’t yet know if there will be a deal to offer the public at the end of the election. But there are some certainties that we can confirm already.
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