The British Columbia government is planning to hold a referendum on proportional representation. This newspaper story in the Ladysmith Chronicle gives the details. Ladysmith is a town in British Columbia, on Vancouver Island.
The British Columbia government is planning to hold a referendum on proportional representation. This newspaper story in the Ladysmith Chronicle gives the details. Ladysmith is a town in British Columbia, on Vancouver Island.
Current gerrymander/plurality math —
1/2 or less votes x 1/2 rigged districts = 1/4 or less control —
compounded by the *parliamentary* stuff – same hacks having legislative and executive powers = 2/3 tyrants.
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Basic PR — NOT exact —
Party members = Total Members x Party Votes / Total Votes
PV/TV = the *proportional* part in PR.
Separate nonpartisan elections of executive officers and judges — via AppV – pending Condorcet math.
http://elections.bc.ca/resources/voting-results/provincial-general-elections-results/
2017 interim [99 + pct final] stats.
There is nothing here on the site that I saw about proportional representation in the election.
BAN has a very poor record of reporting correct information about pure proportional representation and so is not a good source for facts.
Are you interested in pure proportional representation?
The United Coalition has been using pure proportional representation correctly for more than twenty-two consecutive years and it works fine.
http://www.international-parliament.org/ucc.html
I worry a lot when first-past-the-post stands against a multitude of alternatives because many voters will reject the idea of considering the nuances of a wide number of replacement schemes for an existing one that won’t be 100% discredited though deserving. I wish there could be a pre-vote to ask voters what elements constitute superior electoral standard(s).
THE ONE element — minority rule OLIGARCHY past / current versus majority rule DEMOCRACY future.
https://www.leg.bc.ca/parliamentary-business/legislation-debates-proceedings/41st-parliament/2nd-session/bills/first-reading/gov06-1
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SEC. 2 FOR THE HACKS TO RIG ANY PR QUESTION — STANDARD MACHINATIONS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Edward_Island_electoral_reform_referendum,_2016
WAS A VOTE IN 2016 TO HAVE PR IN PEI – PART OF CANADA.
NO ACTION BY THE HACK INCUMBENTS — AS USUAL.
Larry Allread said:
“I worry a lot when first-past-the-post stands against a multitude of alternative”
Perhaps the best approach would be to place all possible options on the ballot and use ranked choice voting. I have felt for some time that the question of how to decide the various options for the status of Puerto Rico could be decided by ranked choice voting among all possible options.
3 or more choices — Condorcet math with Approval Vote tiebreaker
— ie Number rankings and YES/NO on each choice.
@WZ,
A complaint against the current proposed legislation is that it may be IRV, and a FPTP voter would be forced to rank the alternative systems; or that opponents of FPTP will rank all alternatives ahead of FPTP.
2 PARTS –
SHALL THE FPTP ANTI-DEMOCRACY MINORITY RULE GERRYMANDER SYSTEM CONTINUE [TO FULLY HAVE A LOADED QUESTION] ???
YES BOX, NO BOX
IF YOU VOTE NO, THEN NUMBER RANK THE FOLLOWING PR SYSTEMS –
LIST OF PR SYSTEMS
http://www.electionspei.ca/provincial/historical/results/2015/
27 FPTP gerrymander districts – 4 parties in 24 of the 27.
What percentage of the total votes for the lowest 14 winners of one party ???
Clue — barely above 20 (repeat 20) percent.