Thursday, February 01, 2007
I'm famous!
Okay, not really. But I *AM* on the interwebs.
As some of you may know, Ontario will be holding a referendum on the subject of electoral reform in Oct 2007. The question that will appear on the ballot is as of yet to be decided, but more likely than not, the Citizen's Assembly that has been chosen will likely propose some form of proportional representation.
Our man Dalton however is talking out of both sides of his mouth when it comes to electoral reform. On one hand, he claims to support the idea. On the other, he has decided to set the bar at 60% of the vote in order to pass the referendum. This is not only a difficult milestone to meet, but is also a very uncommon practice - virtually every major referendum in Canadian history has had a 50%+1 threshold...if Dalton was serious about change, he'd set the bar at the lowest reasonable thresheold(50+1), not an artificially higher one.
Anyways, the real point of this post, the part about me being famous, is my submission to the Citizen's Assembly, with my recommended solution. Read It Here.
I'd encourage all of you to take a look at Billy The Ballot to find out about what types of systems are used around the world. Then think about what kind of system YOU would like to see used in Ontario.
As some of you may know, Ontario will be holding a referendum on the subject of electoral reform in Oct 2007. The question that will appear on the ballot is as of yet to be decided, but more likely than not, the Citizen's Assembly that has been chosen will likely propose some form of proportional representation.
Our man Dalton however is talking out of both sides of his mouth when it comes to electoral reform. On one hand, he claims to support the idea. On the other, he has decided to set the bar at 60% of the vote in order to pass the referendum. This is not only a difficult milestone to meet, but is also a very uncommon practice - virtually every major referendum in Canadian history has had a 50%+1 threshold...if Dalton was serious about change, he'd set the bar at the lowest reasonable thresheold(50+1), not an artificially higher one.
Anyways, the real point of this post, the part about me being famous, is my submission to the Citizen's Assembly, with my recommended solution. Read It Here.
I'd encourage all of you to take a look at Billy The Ballot to find out about what types of systems are used around the world. Then think about what kind of system YOU would like to see used in Ontario.
# posted by Greg @ 7:18 PM 
