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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 After allowing for blanks, duplications and those submissions that were later withdrawn by the people who sent them, the real total is 1,603.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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MCDOWELL-1611

Before you give undue consideration to STV, you must be sure to ask yourselves if British Columbians are ready to sacrifice the simplicity of First Past the Post for STV's complexity and obscurity. [2 pages]
Category: Citizens' Assembly process, Electoral system change
Author: J McDowell
Date: Aug 17, 2004

PARKINSON-1614

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 strikes me as grossly unfair. [1 page]
Category:
Author: Glenn Parkinson
Date: Aug 16, 2004

BURROWS-1591

MMP is used in many countries around the world, balances proportional results with geographic representation, encourages consensus building in government and has been proven to increase the number of women elected to office. [2 pages]
Category: Electoral system change
Author: Mae Burrows
Date: Aug 16, 2004

MILNER-1612

MMP, while not simple, is far easier for the voter to understand than STV. At a time when popular disillusion with democratic politics is already strong, this is a matter of concern. [1 page]
Category: Electoral system change
Author: Dr Henry Milner
Date: Aug 16, 2004

SUMMERS-1623

Proportional Representation [PR] cannot be viable in BC. We have too many regions whose diversity will not allow for the kind of government people are asking for.  Candidates should be elected under AV to ensure majority support. [1 page]
Category: Electoral system change
Author: Mr Mike Summers
Date: Aug 16, 2004

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