One of the most interesting stories behind BC’s Single Transferable Vote referendum is how we got there. The Citizen’s Assembly on Electoral Reform ran for a year, a fascinating exercise in deliberative democracy, and perhaps the most interesting and forward-looking thing done by the Liberals in their first term. Wendy Bergerud was a CA member [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Electoral reform'
Reflections on the Citizens’ Assembly
April 30th, 2009 · Marc Lee · Comments Off · BC Election 2009, Electoral reform
Tags: BC Citizens' Assembly·deliberative democracy·Electoral reform·Fair Vote Canada·Fair Voting BC·FPTP·MMP·Wendy Bergerud·Women
The Ghost of Elections Past (revised)
April 29th, 2009 · Marc Lee · 1 Comment · BC Election 2009, Electoral reform
From our STV series in the new BC Commentary, UVic historian Ben Isitt looks to the past when he sees STV. UPDATE (April 30): It seems that there is some confusion about the term Single Transferable Vote and its applicability to the 1952 and 1953 elections. Dennis Pilon, also from U Vic wrote to say [...]
Tags: BC Citizens' Assembly·Benjamin Isitt·CCF·Co-operative Commonwealth Federation·Dennis Pilon·Liberals·Social Credit·STV & electoral reform
STV is worth trying
April 25th, 2009 · Seth Klein · Comments Off · BC Election 2009, Electoral reform
Great to see a debate kicked off among our research associates and others about the pros and cons of BC-STV. As Marc mentions below, the current issue of the CCPA’s BC Commentary has a special collection on STV, which you can download here. Keith outlines the case against STV below. And while the CCPA has [...]
Tags: BC Citizens' Assembly·coalition government·FPTP·STV & electoral reform
Another side to STV
April 25th, 2009 · Keith Reynolds · Comments Off · BC Election 2009, Electoral reform, Environment, resources & sustainability
I will take Marc’s suggestion and provide a bit of information on the other side of STV. No STV recommends on their web site that people watch the video on STV prepared by the Citizens’ Assembly. They suggest that watching this video in support of STV will be enough to convince people it is not [...]
Tags: FPTP·STV & electoral reform
That other election: STV
April 22nd, 2009 · Marc Lee · Comments Off · BC Election 2009, Electoral reform
By now, you have probably seen the lawn signs. True, they look a bit like NDP colours but they are actually non-partisan pro-STV signs (not signs for a guy named Steve, with an Eastern European spelling of his name, running for the dippers). You may remember STV from the 2005 BC election, where STV captured [...]
Tags: FPTP·STV & electoral reform
