[EM] British Colombia considering change to STV

Stéphane Rouillon stephane.rouillon at sympatico.ca
Wed Apr 29 17:25:20 PDT 2009


I deeply agree with Terry on this one!!!...
In fact, STV is in my humble opinion the best multiple-winner electoral 
method
among all currently used actually in the countries of the world.

Stéphane Rouillon, ing., M.Sc.A., Ph.D.

Terry Bouricius a écrit :
> 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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