Referendum Results Update
Well it's 11:45 pm, I'm watching the STV results on the Vancouver Sun (Canada.com)'s election tracker (link via here). So far the 'Yes' side is at 56.7% although that figure has been slowly climbing over the last half hour so maybe there is (slim) hope yet.
Either way, it sure looks like a strong vote for change and a strong vote against the status quo. It will be kind of amusing if STV gets the same level of support (57%) that the Liberals got in 2001. I guess 57% is good enough to give a party 77 out of 79 seats in the legislature which runs the province for 4 years but it's not enough to change the electoral system. I'll say this, as long as our archaic First-Past-the-Post system clings to life, I'll keep pushing for us to leave it in the past where it belongs and I hope you'll do the same.
Either way, it sure looks like a strong vote for change and a strong vote against the status quo. It will be kind of amusing if STV gets the same level of support (57%) that the Liberals got in 2001. I guess 57% is good enough to give a party 77 out of 79 seats in the legislature which runs the province for 4 years but it's not enough to change the electoral system. I'll say this, as long as our archaic First-Past-the-Post system clings to life, I'll keep pushing for us to leave it in the past where it belongs and I hope you'll do the same.
posted by Declan at
11:42 PM
3 Comments:
Big deal - 30% of voter list wants change! The requirement for even entertaining adopting such a silly system should be more stringent, say 60% of eligible voters, because a one-time referendum based upon poorly communicated (and ill-thought) information is not a substantive endorsement that should force change of the electoral system. This whole STV non-sense has clearly become a classic case of emporer's new clothes.
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Anonymous, at 2:42 PM
No, nearly sixty percent of people who regularaly care about politics and vote want change.
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Anonymous, at 2:53 PM
anon1: Huh? If we say 30% wants change, then only 20% supports the current system! If we take the 50% (if this is even the right figure) who didn't vote to be an indictment of the current system., then the vote aginst the current system was 80-20%.
Perhaps the requirements for referenda passing should be set based on your assessment of how silly the item being voted on is, does that sound reasonable?
anon2: true.
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Declan, at 5:15 PM
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