I realize that this is a late submission, but like a lot of
other people I guess that I complacently believed that because the
majority of submissions posted supported MMP that would be the
final choice. Now, with the nine final presenters chosen, it looks
like the "special selection committee" has stacked the deck in
favor of STV, a system used in only two countries in the world and
which has shown itself to be fraught with problems.
I live in a rural community, and the idea that a system might be
chosen which would leave us with the old first past the post system
while giving urban centres a proportional form of vote
("Preferential Plus") strikes me as grossly unfair.
I would like to speak for the mixed member proportional
[MMP] system, which, after studying the other choices,
appears to me to be the fairest and most proportional of the
choices. MMP, with its two votes per voter, would allow me to vote
for my local representative and to cast another vote for a party.
In my constituency, with the leader of the Green party running and
a relatively unknown NDP candidate, I could vote for Ms Carr and
cast the other vote for the NDP party. It makes sense to me to vote
for the best person and for the party with a proven track record,
and it's the only system which allows a person to do that.
I would implore the assembly members to listen to the voices of the
majority of the citizens who spoke in favor of MMP and to choose
that as our new provincial electoral system.
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