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Originally posted by Flames Draft Watcher@May 4 2005, 04:58 PM
And by proportional representation I'm talking if 5% of Albertans vote Green, 10% vote NDP, 15% vote Liberal and 70% vote Tory (ficticious numbers just as an example) that the Greens would get 5% of Alberta's seats, NDP would get 10% of Alberta's seats, Libs 15% and Tories 70.
That would be a truer form of democracy than we currently have. We have tyranny of the majority in regions.
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The biggest issue I see with proportional representation in that form is, how do you pick the candidates that are put in office? Currently we "technically" vote for our local candidates, who happen to be in a party. This would effectivly get rid of independant candidates, (who currently don't really matter anyways though)
Another interesting option to explore would be
preference voting where people rank there choices. (this migfht actually be bad for the CPC... but good for independants.) biggest problem is it's complicated.