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Corporations are people too

January 31st, 2010 · Blair Redlin · 3 Comments · Electoral reform, Municipalities, Taxes

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 [...]

The Case for STV

May 6th, 2009 · Marc Lee · Comments Off · 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 [...]

The Case Against STV

May 5th, 2009 · Marc Lee · Comments Off · 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 [...]

STV: A better democracy and more progressive politics

May 1st, 2009 · Marc Lee · Comments Off · 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 [...]

The Ghost of Elections Past (revised)

April 29th, 2009 · Marc Lee · 1 Comment · 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 [...]

STV is worth trying

April 25th, 2009 · Seth Klein · Comments Off · 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 [...]

Another side to STV

April 25th, 2009 · Keith Reynolds · Comments Off · 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 [...]

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That other election: STV

April 22nd, 2009 · Marc Lee · Comments Off · 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 [...]