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 After allowing for blanks, duplications and those submissions that were later withdrawn by the people who sent them, the real total is 1,603.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

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BUSSEY-1633

Instead of the current practice of just selecting the one candidate on the ballot perhaps you could consider an approval rating system where the voter marks Favour or Oppose for each of the candidates on the ballot. [1 page]
Category: Electoral system change
Author: Todd Bussey
Date: Sep 21, 2004

ADAM-1632

The MMP system may be the best choice for BC, in that it is easily understood and the results are known very quickly.  No matter what system is adopted, it would be an improvement over the present First Past the Post System. [1 page]
Category: Electoral system change
Author: Neil Adam
Date: Sep 21, 2004

HAMILTON-1631

Two comments on MMP: first, citizens must be able to vote for whomever they please from the party list; secondly, the PR list component should only apply to the list candidates, not the whole legisature [MMM or parallel list]. [1 page]
Category:
Author: J Dwayne Hamilton
Date: Sep 21, 2004

MELROSE-1630

My proposal is based upon the idea that we all owe our society for the rights and privileges we enjoy. No one should be exempt from having a duty to serve a single term for the state, say five years. Selection would be random. [2 pages]
Category: Democratic government
Author: Simon Melrose
Date: Sep 21, 2004

WERA-1629

I support electoral reform where half the members of the Legislature are elected by proportional representation and half as they are today, giving ample support to local representation [MMP]. [1 page]
Category: Democratic government, Electoral system change
Author: Guy Wera
Date: Sep 20, 2004

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