Plain Words, Uncommon Sense

Monday, May 02, 2005

Single Transferable Vote

What’s the deal with this single transferable vote? Well I think it is probably the only exciting thing about the upcoming election.

The May 17 provincial election ballot in British Columbia will contain a referendum question about whether the province should switch to a new method of voting, called the single transferable vote.

The Citizens Assembly, which proposed the concept, shows how the proposed system works.

Here’s the link to the Citizensassembly.bc.ca Resource page with a flash animation on how it works. 

CBC also has a great illustration of the Single Transferrable Vote and its results in an election of favourite ice cream flavours: http://www.cbc.ca/bcvotes2005/features/stv.html

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