National Advisory Board
Fair Vote Canada
Caroline Lucas: Ed and David should support more options for AV ...
... to choose from a wider range of voting systems – including the additional member system (as used in the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and Greater London Assembly) and the single transferable vote (as used in Northern Ireland). ...
Opinion: the Australian election and AV
There is of course a perfectly good system which allows for both fairness and preferential voting. it is called the Single Transferable Vote and it is supported by formal Lib Dem policy – AV is not. Paul McKeown ...
Mississauga Article: Candidates call for campaign reform
“Organizations such as Fair Vote Canada are campaigning across the country to end corporate intrusion into the election process,” Ward 10 council candidate Bill McBain said in a press release. “I dare Mississauga councillors to rely on ...
Why don't voters go to the polls? - Town Crier Newspapers
Why don't voters go to the polls?
Town Crier Newspapers
Fair Vote Canada advocates for proportional representation (PR) because they allow for the majority of votes to count. While people often think of PR in ...
Pop the Stack: Declaration of Voter Rights Signatures
Fair Vote Canada has been running a petition since the prorogation nonsense last year. I've been tweeting the current count over @FairVoteUBC every once in a while. So I realized I actually have all the data about signatures, ...
Camille Labchuk » Attention headline writers
Check out a letter from Fair Vote Canada's Executive Director Larry Gordon in yesterday's Toronto Star for more info on this. And as Barbara Yaffe explains in a column today, Greens in Europe have had representation for decades (oh how ...
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http://www.camillelabchuk.ca/2010/08/10/attention-headline-writers/ Q&A with Judy Rebick: “We have one of the least democratic systems ...
This spoke to social activist Judy Rebick, who is a member of Fair Vote Canada, about her group's campaign to bring some form of proportional representation to Canada. This: What's wrong with our current system? ...
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http://feed.this.org/~r/all_this/~3/bVdpKSwpoM4/ Another reason for voting reform: Parliament needs women : This ...
In the past ten years, Fair Vote Canada has seen the failure of three provincial referendums on voting reform, and there's nothing on the horizon to indicate another shot. A decade in, the group is no closer to its goal. ...
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http://this.org/magazine/2010/07/19/voting-reform-women/ Another reason for voting reform: Parliament needs women
Ten years ago, Larry Gordon, a political activist who had lately become concerned about the future of democracy, approached Doris Anderson and asked if she would join Fair Vote Canada, his new campaign for electoral reform. ...
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http://feed.this.org/~r/all_this/~3/KWItoF5iurA/ Wilf Day's Blog: Why Liberals need the Law Commission of Canada's ...
In the UK, the Liberal Democrats have postponed their claim for proportional representation, settling for the Alternative Vote (AV) which would help them somewhat in the UK. They don't have our problem of exaggerated regional ...
