STV Round-Up: How Does STV Work?

Another poll in today's globe showing that around half the population has no idea what the referendum is about and that (unsurprisingly) a similar percentage are undecided about whether to vote yes or no. It's encouraging that, among decided voters, support for a 'Yes' vote continues to run above 60% (27% for, 15% against), but clearly more work needs to be done to get people educated.

With that in mind, here's a few links:

Matt at liquid thoughts does a good job of making STV as easy as pie via the magic of analogy.

Meanwhile, Andrew at Not Sugar Coated tries to fit BC-STV into a nutshell.

Of course part of understanding STV well (at least in my mind) is not being taken in by some of the 'No' side's arguments.

To that end, this post from the Ogre's Den does a nice concise job of explaining the system and answering some of the 'No' side arguments.

And over at the Tyee, Rafe Mair echoes some of the Ogre's points in explaining why he supports STV.

Meanwhile the North Shore news has some good coverage of STV including this 'Vote Yes' editorial.

Finally, it's on the topic of Proportional Representation rather than STV in B.C. per say, but this post From Another Perspective, is worth a read if you're interested in electoral reform in general, specifically how proportional representation could work in practice.

Update: Via Tannock.Net I found this excellent STV resource from the CBC. If you want to vote in their ice cream election (which compares FPTP and STV side by side), you have until 9 (pm?) on Monday. What is it with STV and food anyway?