[EM] British Colombia considering change to STV

[Terry Bouricius]

Kathy,

While there are serious disagreements on this list about the relative 
merits of various single-winner voting methods, I think you will find that 
most people who have studied the STV form of proportional representation 
agree that it is a very fair and very good method, and arguably the best 
in use anywhere today. I can't imagine any thoughtful reformer wanting to 
throw a monkey wrench into one of the most promising election reform 
movements in the world today. Go BC-STV!

Terry Bouricius


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kathy Dopp" <kathy.dopp at gmail.com>
To: <election-methods at lists.electorama.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 5:57 PM
Subject: Re: [EM] British Colombia considering change to STV


> 1. British Colombia considering change to STV (Graham Bignell)

It wasn't hard to find a site campaigning against it:

http://www.nostv.org/count.html

People might also want to warn the BC government about the ugly mess
that they would get themselves into by adopting such a fundamentally
unfair, inequitable, complex and costly method for counting rank
choice votes.  The web page to contact the BC government is:

http://www.gov.bc.ca/referendum_info/contact/
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