Notices tagged with electoralreform

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Who wins Election 2019 under a ranked-ballot system? #PhilippeJFournier in #Macleans
https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/who-wins-election-2019-under-a-ranked-ballot-system/

The short answer [0]: it wouldn't change the end results much. For me, the fact that ranked ballots give results similar to first-past-the-post is one of their advantages.

[0] The major flaw in the model is that it doesn't account for a voter who strategically voted for her second preference.

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@ink_slinger @sikkdays @keithzg I have no strong opinion on how councillors should be elected. That being said, electing the *mayor* by a ranked ballot makes a lot of sense to me.

I see that New York City may decide to adopt a ranked ballot soon:

https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2019/09/19/ranked-choice-voting-how-it-would-work-new-york-city-ballot-measure-support-campaign-launched

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@ink_slinger @sikkdays If Canadians really want #ElectoralReform, they should start with smaller jurisdictions and work up. Change elections for city government (e.g., https://www.rabit.ca/ ), then provinces, then the feds.

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A useful #ElectoralReform I support: "None of the above" on the ballot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/None_of_the_above

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@keithzg I have strong interest in #ElectoralReform myself -- I strongly oppose #ProportionalRepresentation. (We can discuss that at some point if you'd like, but preferably not today.) But in my experience it's not an issue that moves voters. Hence the low turnout and the status quo wins whenever there is a referendum on the issue.

#PMTrudeau will likely be happy that he the current vote will be under #FPTP. We seem to be heading towards 1972 redux.

@keithzg This is one of the most obvious broken promises of the Trudeau ministry, and so the Liberals will probably lose votes as a result. But the number of Canadians for whom #ElectoralReform is a top issue must surely be vanishingly small. There's probably more genuine interest in senate reform.

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♲ @FairVoteCanada@twitter.com: “No more strategic voting! We get to vote for who we want now! It’s a new golden age of representative democracy in Canada, and I’m so happy that I woke up just in time to participate in this historic step forward for my country!”
#ElectoralReform www.thebeaverton.com/2019/10/m…

@ink_slinger Centrist indeed. Apparently the PCs, Greens and NDP all supported #MMP, and the Liberals were neutral. But they also all pledged to honour the referendum result, so the status quo survives.

I'm disappointed that the Conservatives didn't care to conserve #FPTP.

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@ink_slinger Have a look at the comparison table of voting systems at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_method#Comparison_table !

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FWIW, I'm not completely opposed to #ElectoralReform in Canada. I favour more use of preferential ballots; they're particularly well-suited to voting for mayors.

Once (or if) voters become comfortable with #PreferentialVoting, then we could try it for the election of MLAs...

(Australia, which is a sister-country to Canada, has used preferential voting for a century, so we can have some idea of how it would work in practice.)

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#PEI election today and referendum today. I hope mixed member proportional representation maintains its losing streak in Canada.

OTOH, if we want to experiment with #ElectoralReform, a small province would be the best place to try it out.

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If you favour electoral reform, then start with municipal government.

I'm content with FPTP for provincial and federal elections, but I do favour ranked voting for mayors, e.g., https://www.rabit.ca/

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‘Electoral reform is finished’: B.C. voters reject switch to proportional representation for third time | National Post
https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/electoral-reform-is-finished-b-c-voters-reject-switch-to-proportional-representation-for-third-time

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@Fralambert @keithzg @ink_slinger
First, it's not true that a vote for a candidate who has little chance of winning is a wasted vote in FPTP — more votes for the Greens make the other parties take the environment more seriously. They want you to vote for them next time.

Secondly, the Alternative Vote (AKA instant-runoff voting) would be a more obvious solution to Adam's concern that voting for the Green candidate would hurt the NDP candidate.

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♲ @w_a_march@twitter.com: Remember when @JustinTrudeau promised electoral reform unconditionally, repeatedly, clearly, with a deadline, in his no-BS-excuses voice, making it a key campaign promise, staking his honour and reputation on keeping that promise? Remember that, Canada?
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