Mar
31
2009
BC-STV: In 100 words or less
Posted by: Frédéric Van Caenegem in British Columbia, Issues & politics, tags: BC-STV, Common Ground, STVPublished in the latest edition of Common Ground:
“Under BC-STV, each person gets to rank candidates in order of preference 1, 2, 3, etc. If your favourite candidate is eliminated, your vote is not wasted; it is simply transferred to your second choice, and so on. No need to vote strategically for the “lesser of two evils” as we do currently. I truly believe that BC-STV is a tool to get our democracy to work better, to get governments more responsive to the people and to improve the “government of the people, by the people, for the people” as per Abraham Lincoln’s famous saying.”
Frédéric Van Caenegem
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Two words are missing.
“If your favourite candidate is eliminated OR ELECTED, your vote is not wasted.”
The most ingenious feature of STV is that surplus votes are not wasted either. If a candidate receives twice as many votes as needed to be elected, half of each vote is transferred to the next preference on the ballot.
STV is designed to make sure that every vote counts, and counts equally, as nearly as is mathematically possible.