BC is seeking public input on electoral reform
BC is seeking public input on electoral reform
Welcome to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia's Consultation Portal. Participate in public consultations, submit feedback, and share your views on key legislative matters.
For those wanting to understand the single transferable vote more.
STV is the GOAT. It's the perfect system for Canada. How amazing would it be for left-leaving people in rural BC to have a local MP representing them? A 5-seat riding in rural BC might go something like 2 seats NDP/Green, 2 seats Cons, 1 seat whatever the BC Liberals call themselves.
STV brings roughly proportional representation, while not fracturing things too much (20%+ of the vote needed to get a seat), keeps representatives responsible to the electorate not the party (no "safe" ridings since another candidate from your party can be chosen over the incumbent, and no party list in MMP), and keeps representation tied to a geographic region.
I'm so ready for Canada to move to STV. The regulatory lurch that comes from (the inevitably polarized) FPTP has been terrible for Canada.
I have no interest in presenting before the special committee; they should already have all the information they need from last time.
But I’m glad that link is there for any future scheduled public hearings; if there are any in my neck of the woods I definitely want to make my voice heard that corporations have no right to be influencing electoral reform, and that ANYTHING ranked choice is going to be better than FPTP.
I just don’t want to see a repeat of last time where they put multiple badly explained systems on the poll and then had corporations and big moneyed special interest groups advertising and lobbying against abandoning FPTP with blatantly deceptive arguments.
I am thinking of signing up to present for this, does anyone here have experience with this?
Of note I wouldn’t be representing a community, just myself. Does that even make sense in this context or would I be making a fool of myself for no benefit?
Excess votes from winners go proportionally to the winner voters' second choices and then the last place voters' go to their next favourites and so on? Am I understanding this right?
Seems like a neat system, since the Proportional I'm used to is Local Candidate + Proportional Party bloc vote.