Abandon plurality. Use the ideas behind Condorcet voting and
adopt preferential voting.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method for
a discussion of Condorcet voting
In preferential voting, currently in use in
Australia [AV], voters rank, in order of preference, the candidates
they choose to represent them.
A recent item on CBC radio showed that, compared to
first past the post, run-off, and proportional plurality voting
[AV] are the most stable systems, i.e., the results best
reflect the desires of the voters, and are least sensitive to
instabilities like protest votes and vote splitting. This makes
intuitive sense, since, by ranking candidates, we not only get a
say on who we want to govern, but who we don't.
Using preferential voting will eliminate vote splitting, and
strategic voting, support proportional representation [STV], and
give British Columbians reason to be interested in politics again.
Let's bring it here.
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