[EM] British Colombia considering change to STV

[Graham Bignell]

This is one of the more amusing editorials about the proposal...
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/05/07/national-post-editorial-board-first-egghead-past-the-post-wins-b-c-s-referendum.aspx

"One sign that a society is running out of real problems is that bored
upper-middle-class types start inventing phony ones. Thus do we
periodically get initiatives aimed at replacing our perfectly
functional first-past-the-post electoral system with some hybrid
alternative that few understand or support. In Ontario, this
alternative — soundly rejected at the polls in 2007 — was called
mixed-member proportional representation. In British Columbia, it’s
called the “Single Transferable Vote.”"

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Graham