Most of it was pretty basic: voters will have a chance to vote in a plebiscite; elections will be administered by Elections Canada; standard spending limits in place, etc.
But when it came time to explain how candidates would win I was completely stumped.
Apparently it’s not just going to be a “first past the post” system but instead it will be STV — Single Transferable Vote.
Now it has something to do with something called “quotients”, but that’s all I got out of it.
Seems to me the only people who will understand the voting system will be physicists.
Here's what a STV ballot will look like:
Crossposted on the National Citizens Coalition Blog.
2 comments:
Seems like a dumb idea when considering this was defeated in BC last year. Besides the voting system should be simple and easy to understand. A better solution would be IRV where if no candidate gets above 50%, the lowest candidate is dropped off and his or her second choices are re-allocated.
57% of people in BC supported this. The government changed the referendum bar before the election.
Its the system used in Ireland, Australia, England, and soon in Scotland. A similar system called instant run off voting is used in half of the presidential elections in Europe. As well as a number of county districts in the states.
The quota is if multiple positions are open, if only 1 senator is up for election, the quotas is 50 +1.
Single (One vote per person), Transferable, (If your first choice doesn't get in it goes to your 2nd), Vote (the thing separating us from North Korea)
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