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SUBMISSIONS FROM THE PUBLIC

Members of the public sent to the Assembly a total of 1,603 public submissions during the 13 months ended 27 September 2004. And you can access them all lower down on this page.

Incidentally, the numbers on the submissions appear to show that there are 1,669 of them. After allowing for blanks, duplications and those submissions that were later withdrawn by the people who sent them, the real total is 1,603. Unfortunately, we cannot renumber the submissions to reflect that.

If a posted submission is dated after 27 September, that date refers to the date the submission was processed and posted to the website, not the date it was received. 

To help you navigate through the 1,603 submissions received from the public, here are:
  1. An introduction to the submissions, available as a Word document (40KB) or as a PDF document (110KB).
  2. A link to the View Submissions page, where you can read and/or search 1,603 submissions
  3. A complete list of the submissions and their abstracts, available as an Excel spreadsheet (472KB) or as a PDF (348KB)
  4. A guide to the longer submissions (i.e., 80 submissions that run four or more pages in length). This guide is available as a Word document (36KB) or as a PDF file (96KB).
  5. A list of the 80 longer submissions, indexed by electoral system and including abstracts. This list is available as an Excel spreadsheet (40KB) or as a PDF item (90KB).

Submission List

To read a submission in full, click on the submitter's name/number
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ADAMS-1387

'I want to add my voice to other and urge you not to abandon the first-past-the-post system we have now in the province.'  [4 pages]
Category: Electoral system no change
Author: Neale Adams
Date: Aug 24, 2004

BURKOSKY-1386

I favour some form of proportional representation [PR] and to move to this system as quickly as possible.  The current system does not adequately represent the diversity of ideas and values held by the electorate. [1 page]
Category: Electoral system change
Author: Cathy Burkosky
Date: Aug 24, 2004

WRIGHT-1385

The present electoral system is totally unworkable and leaves many BC rural inhabitants, and Green Party voters especially, feeling totally unrepresented. For this reason I wish to express my desire for a MMP voting system for BC. [1 page]
Category: Electoral system change
Author: Eleanor Wright
Date: Aug 24, 2004

SCHUBART-1384

There needs to be some sort of check on the tyranny of the majority so that those minorities within the greater constituency need not fear that their rights and needs will be trampled by an unsympathetic majority. [2 pages]
Category: Democratic government, Electoral system change
Author: Dan Schubart
Date: Aug 24, 2004

RICHIE-1383

Whatever strengths that American democracy has, precious little can be traced to our winner-take-all electoral system in single-member districts, which are used for U.S. Congressional and most state legislative elections. [2 pages]
Category: Democratic elections, Electoral system change
Author: Robert Richie, Executive Director, The Center for Voting and Democracy
Date: Aug 24, 2004

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