Major Push for Proportional Representation Launched in Canada

On September 19, prominent supporters of proportional representation for Canada held a rally in the Canadian capitol. The event is sponsored by Fair Vote Canada. The event is getting good publicity; see this article.


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Major Push for Proportional Representation Launched in Canada — 4 Comments

  1. The Brit types have a fatal fixation with complex STV P.R. —
    Result – MAJOR defeats See the B.C. disaster vote.

    Simple P.R. –
    Total Votes / Total Seats = EQUAL votes needed for each seat winner – via pre-election candidate rank order lists.

    Winner excess votes down – loser votes up — cross district vote transfers.

    Obviously candidates of the same party will rank each other highest — then other possible coalition parties.

    Result – both majority rule and minority representation.

    Who is the maniac who makes those curved nonwords in the ReCaptcha ???

  2. Demo Rep,

    MMP is actually quite popular among PR-supporting Canadians. I would also point out that there are some non-party-list PR systems that are much simpler than STV.

    Asset Voting
    ScoreVoting.net/Asset.html

    Proportional Score Voting (aka Reweighted Range Voting)
    ScoreVoting.net/RRV.html

    If you use the latter with only zero or 1 allowed for a score, then you get Proportional Approval Voting, which is so simple you can easily count it on a Google Docs spreadsheet, like this.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyLgDk8kbyI

    Clay Shentrup
    Berkeley, CA

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