Advocates of democratic electoral reform are really out of step. Ideas like proportional representation and advertising spending limits are so retro, so 2004.
The fashionable electoral reform idea this year is to give corporations a real say. It’s time for individual citizens to share their electoral democracy with corporations to give meaning to those old legal [...]
Entries Tagged as 'STV & electoral reform'
Corporations are people too
January 31st, 2010 · Blair Redlin · 2 Comments · Electoral reform, Municipalities, Taxes
Tags: accountability·B.C. government·corporations·democracy·Electoral reform·Municipalities·STV & electoral reform
The Case for STV
May 6th, 2009 · Marc Lee · No Comments · BC Election 2009, Electoral reform
One final article from our BC Commentary special:
The Case for the BC Single Transferable Vote (BC-STV)
by David Huntley and Michael Wortis
BC-STV has many advantages over the current First-Past-the-Post system (FPTP) used for electing our MLAs. BC-STV will achieve a reasonably proportional representation of parties, with the number of MLAs of each party in close proportion [...]
Tags: coalition government·David Huntley·FPTP·majoritarian·Michael Wortis·minority government·STV & electoral reform
The Case Against STV
May 5th, 2009 · Marc Lee · No Comments · BC Election 2009, Electoral reform
More from our BC Commentary special on STV:
The Case Against STV
By David Schreck
Will STV “make your vote count”? Actually, BC-STV can make your vote worth less and make your MLA less accountable. Our existing first-past-the-post (FPTP) system is not perfect, but it is better than BC-STV.
Inequality is inherent in BC-STV. The Northeast (Peace River) would [...]
Tags: accountability·David Schreck·FPTP·STV & electoral reform
STV: A better democracy and more progressive politics
May 1st, 2009 · Marc Lee · No Comments · BC Election 2009, Electoral reform
Dennis Pilon from UVic published this excellent article on STV in the CCPA Monitor, so I am republishing it below:
MAY 12 DECISION DAY FOR B.C. VOTERS: Change to STV system would be helpful to progressives
By Dennis Pilon
May 12, 2009 will be the “make-or-break” day for voting system reform in British Columbia, and perhaps [...]
Tags: BC Citizens' Assembly·Dennis Pilon·FPTP·STV & electoral reform
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 that [...]
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 · No Comments · 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 no [...]
Tags: BC Citizens' Assembly·coalition government·FPTP·STV & electoral reform
Another side to STV
April 25th, 2009 · Keith Reynolds · No Comments · 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 · No Comments · 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
