[EM] British Colombia considering change to STV

Graham Bignell bignell at gmail.com
Thu May 7 08:29:07 PDT 2009


On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Raph Frank <raphfrk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Graham Bignell <bignell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ... soundly rejected at the polls in 2007 ....
> Huh, didn't it get majority support (within a few percent of the
> supermajority required)? :)
> Many parties would like to be "soundly rejected" like that.

I think it was 36.8 for, 63.2 against.  This is a good collection of
people's thoughts around the issue at the time:
http://www.cbc.ca/ontariovotes2007//MT/2007/09/how_do_you_feel_about_a_new_vo.html

...
Graham



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