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What is STV All About?
Thu, 11/08/2007 - 01:04 — adminWhat's Voting For?
Canada's system of government is theoretically based on the principle of representative democracy in which we citizens choose MPs or MLAs to represent us and our values in the legislature or parliament. Our voting system is the means by which we make those choices.
The figure below shows the issue for a
Resources
Learning About STV
BC Citizens' Assembly - originators of proposal
Demochoice BC - Virtual elections conducted using STV rules
Understanding STV - excellent neutral educational site by Mike Gobbi
Citizens' Assembly Alumni - information set up by alumni of the CA
The Need for Reform
Our current voting system (known as First Past the Post - FPTP) violates all the rules we learned in kindergarten; it is:
Unfair
What else could you call a voting system that
Animation of Vote-Counting Process from BC Citizens' Assembly
The following is a video created by the Citizens' Assembly of BC.
Victoria State Holds First STV Election
Wed, 11/29/2006 - 12:00 — adminOn the heels of recent votes by several US cities to adopt STV-type
voting systems, the Australian state of Victoria has held its first STV
election this past weekend. Victoria is the last of Australia's five
bicameral state legislatures to adopt proportional representation to
elect at least one of its houses. The method aopted there was very
similar to the Single Transferable Voting system that the BC Citizens'
Assembly recommended for BC and which won 58% support in the 2005
referendum.
"The state of Victoria is similar to BC in many ways," says Bruce
