stv: a smarter way to vote
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A quick overview of the BC-STV proposal recommended by the BC Citizens' Assembly - explained using Smarties.TRANSCRIPT
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BC-STV: A Smarter way To Votei
Why your fellow voters in the Citizens’ Assembly chose STV...
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Wherever we live in BC, some of our neighbours will share our political views, and others won’t. Normally, that makes life interesting, but …
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when it’s time for an election, we get divided up fairly arbitrarily based on where we live (these groupings of voters are called ridings).
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Each party puts up one candidate in each riding and only one candidate is elected per riding.
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We choose the winner by seeing who has the most votes in each riding.
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Here, Yellow Party candidates have won every single riding. Our current voting system tends to produce these sweeps.
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The Yellow Party supporters are probably pretty happy (if they liked their candidate), but the Blue voters are left out.
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BC-STV takes a more inclusive approach. The idea is to make sure that almost everyone gets an MLA they want.
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First, voters in a given region aren’t divided up arbitrarily – any voter in the region can vote for any candidate the parties put forward. This gives the voters more choice.
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Naturally, voters will support the candidates they like most – Yellow Party supporters will tend to vote for Yellow candidates & Blue Party supporters for Blue candidates.
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MLAs are elected by roughly equal numbers of voters – here, there are enough Yellow Party supporters to elect 2 MLAs, but the Blue Party supporters can elect 1 Blue MLA.
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With STV, virtually everyone gets an MLA they personally support, so your voice will be heard in the legislature.
Current FPTP system:
Proposed BC-STV system:
BC-STV: Not just a vote – A Voice!On May 12, 2009, vote for BC-STV. See STV.ca for more info.
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