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ALEX Salmond has denied Alba is trying to game the Holyrood voting system, insisting he knows from personal experience the difference a supermajority would make. Speaking on the BBC’s Good Morning Scotland today, the former first minister and current Alba party leader said the Scottish Parliament’s D’Hondt system was “vastly superior” to Westminster’s First Past The Post. He highlighted how Westminster has a share of MPs that does not reflect how the public voted, and said it showed the UK was “out of step”. Asked if he agreed that Alba’s list-only policy was “gaming the system”, Salmond told the BBC: “I tend to agree with Andy McIver, the former publicity director of the Scottish Tories, [who pointed out] that the electoral system, the D’Hondt system is used across Europe.