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Old 01-05-2010, 04:33 PM   #115
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My question is will these 2 parties split the traditional PC voters and leave room for the other parties to gain seats?

Minority similar to the federal parliament in the making?
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Recall is just a dumb idea. I once thought that I would be in favour of this until I realised a few issues. Most of the ridings are somewhat competitive and getting the requisite number of signatures isn't really that shocking (say you have a competitive riding where the first past the post results are 38% to 30% for the first two...the second place finisher will likely get enough signatures to recall the guy who just won!).
Ah first past the post... so full of holes. We should just scrap it a go with STV, enough with these artificial supermajorities.
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