This is a short submission to urge you to develop an electoral
system that provides representation to all citizens, rather than
only those who voted for the 'first past the post' party in their
riding. The current situation means that we are
continually governed by MLAs that actually received a minority of
the total ballots cast. In other words, the wishes of the citizens
is actually beiing contradicted by the 'first past the post'
system.
The current government of BC has an enormous majority in the
Legislature, and yet hundreds of thousands of citizens, currently
voiceless, voted against them. You must empower all
citizens with some form of proportional representation [PR].
The threshold for a political party's legitimacy must not be too
low, or else you will have the Israeli situation where there are
too many tiny political parties who are actually able to hold the
balance of power in the necessary coalitions, and thus hold
undeserved influence.
Perhaps a combination of 'first past the post' and proportional
reperesentation would be best [MMP]. I leave you to decide the
precise details, as that is your mandate.
Thanks you for the work you are doing, and thank you for
receiving my submission.
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