Fairshare Voting Reform :Scotland's Campaign for Local
Democracy
Our constitution prevents us from commenting on the situation in
British Columbia or from making specific recommendations to you.
However, it is apparent that you are facing many of the same issues
as we have faced over the past few years as we have addressed
reform of the voting system used to elect Local Authorities here in
Scotland. Accordingly we would suggest that you visit our website
www.fairsharevoting.org
where you will find a great deal of information and links to many
relevant documents.
Just for the record, on 23 June 2004, the Scottish Parliament voted
overwhelmingly to pass the Local Governance (Scotland) Bill that
will introduce the Single Transferable Vote system of Proportional
Representation for the next set of Local Authority elections, due
in May 2007. STV-PR with wards returning either three or four
councillors will replace First-Past-The-Post with single-member
wards.
For and on behalf of the Fairshare Campaign Committee
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