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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 After allowing for blanks, duplications and those submissions that were later withdrawn by the people who sent them, the real total is 1,603.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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PERKINS-1448

A superior system of voting to the current first past the post system is the preferential ballot [AV], where candidates are ranked 1, 2, 3, 4 and the ballots are counted one ranking at a time until a candidate gets 51% of the votes. [1 page]
Category: Electoral system change
Author: Dr Stanley A Perkins
Date: Aug 30, 2004

GILBERT-1447

A proprosal for contingent voting (a variation of AV) to ensure that an elected MLA receives a clear majority of the votes cast. [3 pages]
Category: Electoral system change
Author: Ian F Gilbert
Date: Aug 30, 2004

YOUNG-1446

'The Tyranny of the Majority'  An examination of the issue of representation of urban and rural communities.  [3 pages]
Category: Regional representation
Author: Victor M Young
Date: Aug 30, 2004

MILSTEAD-1445

'Electoral Reforms'  In order for a multiparty system to work democratically, there would need to be changes to our voting system. If there were 5 candidates, we should be asked to rank them 1 to 5 [AV]. [5 pages] 
Category: Electoral system change, Other
Author: Julia Milstead
Date: Aug 30, 2004

DEAN-1444

I am strongly opposed to proportional representation [PR] as it provides no relationship between a citizen and any representative. That is not democracy.  [2 pages]
Category: Electoral system no change
Author: R R Dean
Date: Aug 30, 2004

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