Electric Dirt Farmer » bc http://ditto.ca/weblog A conglomeration of foolishness. Thu, 08 Sep 2011 07:10:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 BC-STV Falls Short http://ditto.ca/weblog/2005/05/bc-stv-falls-short/ http://ditto.ca/weblog/2005/05/bc-stv-falls-short/#comments Thu, 19 May 2005 00:30:00 +0000 http://ditto.ca/weblog/?p=35 It would appear that the Single Transferable Vote didn’t quite have enough support to pass in yesterday’s referendum in BC. As a fan of political theatre and oddball candidates, I must admit that I’m a little disappointed. However, it’s good to see that both the premier and opposition leader acknowledge that a lot of people would like to see electoral reform. For obvious reasons, quite a few people deeply involved in party politics (like BC NDP leader Carol James) prefer the mixed member proportional system to STV. The party lists help keep the party machinery in charge and are a handy way to find slots for star candidates.

With his initiation of the process leading up to the referendum Gordon Campbell is doing a good job of making himself a comfortable spot in the BC political history books. It should be interesting to see what happens.

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