What is This Group is About?
De Quoi Parle ce Groupe?
The unofficial non-partisan Lemmy movement to bring proportional representation to all levels of government in Canada.
🗳️Voters deserve more choice and accountability from all politicians.
Le mouvement non officiel et non partisan de Lemmy visant à introduire la représentation proportionnelle à tous les niveaux de gouvernement au Canada.
🗳️Les électeurs méritent davantage de choix et de responsabilité de la part de tous les politiciens.
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We're looking for more moderators, especially those who are of French and indigenous identities.
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Nous recherchons davantage de modérateurs, notamment ceux qui sont d'identité française et autochtone.
We won't be united on democracy until we adopt a system that ensures governments reflect a broad majority consensus.
That's what's literally happening with undemocratic first past-the-post drowning out 60% of the views in the country, throwing away the votes that didn't go for 2 most popular candidates.
False. It's family of voting systems and it's not a single a single voting system. We should not be generalizing. Under the proportional systems of the single transferable vote and mixed-member proportional politicians still need to to appeal to their local ridings.
Can you explain how this works please
Under STV voters rank their preferred candidates in a 1 2 3.. order, the candidate that passes the threshold wins a seat this process repeats until all positions in a 3-5 member riding are filled.
Under MMP voters get 2 votes 1 for the local candidate and the other for the party candidate. Most of the mps are elected into local single member seats with the party-list mps being used to top off the seats.
Districts do not cease to exist just because you changed the voting method.
STV - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote You rank your choice, if your first is eliminated the second gets your vote.... Similar to what Trudeau proposed back then.
Mixed-Member - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-member_proportional_representation This is also can be mix of many things, but in general: you vote to your district's candidate, and/or to a party/list of candidates. The representatives are a mix of district representatives and the list. The list can be regional, or nationwide. Germany is an example of this.
There are many more, and Alberta, Manitoba and BC tried some for a few decades. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-single-transferable-vote-1.5271771
Thanks for the info