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and those submissions that were later withdrawn by the people who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:
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An introduction to the submissions, available as a Word
document (40KB) or as a PDF
document (110KB).
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A link to the
View Submissions page, where you can read and/or search 1,603
submissions
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A complete list of the submissions and their abstracts,
available as an Excel
spreadsheet (472KB) or as a
PDF (348KB)
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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).
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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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Please change the voting system in BC to some version
of MMP. Please do not divide the
province between urban and rural areas and give each a different
voting system. It will only give a reason for grievance between
these areas. [1 page]
Category: Electoral system change
Author: Bernadette Pearce
Date: Aug 13, 2004
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I favour the Mixed Member Proportional [MMP] voting
system which provides proportional representation with
clearly defined candidates and parties. [1 page]
Category: Electoral system change
Author: Mr David Stanley
Date: Aug 13, 2004
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MMP is the best option because at least one of my two votes is
almost sure to count. The cost of enlarging the constituencies is
worth my getting to vote for a party and for a local
representative. [1 page]
Category: Electoral system change
Author: Mr Gordon Weese
Date: Aug 13, 2004
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MMP is the best system of voting because it allows voters more
flexibility and will increase the diversity of views in the
government. There will be more interest in the elections when
voters don't feel like winners and losers. [2 pages]
Category: Electoral system change
Author: Susan Clarke
Date: Aug 13, 2004
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Certainly there are drawbacks in any system we might choose. But
in my study of several of the better-known voting systems, it seems
that an MMP system is the fairest and perhaps the
clearest to understand. [1 page]
Category: Electoral system change
Author: Mr Jack Thornburgh
Date: Aug 13, 2004
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