Tuesday, January 24, 2006

 

Garbage can vote


My vote was a wasted vote at least on the local level. Well with the exception of giving the conservatives my 1.75$. My other consolation is that the federal party I voted for got in.

Now I personally am dead set against strategic voting and even more dead set against not voting at all. Worse case scenario spoil your ballot to send a message.

This is just one more reason for me to promote Proportional Representation and a change in our democratic process.

On the flip side the only people who would even thing about strategic voting are those who are informed. Since all of the parties are are basically Cats exception being the NDP and we are mice it really doesn't make all that much difference which party between the Libs and the CPC gets in we are still going to be mice and Ontario is going to be the Fat cat.

Anyway I found another pretty good write up on Proportional Representation albeit it is written by an American it is still quite informative and uses some examples of different scenarios and how they would work and affect our democracy.

Here are the links I have so far explaining Pro Rep.

http://www.democraticspace.com/canada/er/MakingEveryVoteCount.pdf
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/polit/damy/BeginnningReading/howprwor.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation
http://www.fairvote.org/irv/
http://www.fairvotecanada.org/
Comments:
Pro Rep is something we as Canadians really have to start discussing. There is no doubt that change is needed for better representation at the highest levels and we have to work towards creating that change.

I've posted an article on the NL Green Party website regarding what the outcome of the 2006 election would have been if we had a Pro Rep system... if you're interested.

Perhaps we both can help spark this change.

Stephen
http://eliharris.blogspot.com/
http://NLGreenParty.blogspot.com
 
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