[EM] British Columbia voting-method reform

[Greg Dennis]

Richard,

I'm not seeing the same information you are on the referendum site. First,
there is no final referendum language or list of options yet. That is still
to be determined, informed in part by the results of the survey.

STV involves the direct election of individual candidates, so control would
not be turned over to party insiders under that system. As you point out,
the other methods could have that effect, if they use closed lists, but
rather than gloss over the distinction between open and closed lists, the site
explains the difference
<https://engage.gov.bc.ca/howwevote/votingsystems/> under
each system page.

It will be interesting to see which methods ultimately make it on the
referendum ... and which method they use to choose the winner of the
referendum :)

Greg
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