On September 19, prominent supporters of proportional representation for Canada held a rally in the Canadian capitol. The event is sponsored by Fair Vote Canada. The event is getting good publicity; see this article.
Ballot Access News
Edited By Richard Winger
The Brit types have a fatal fixation with complex STV P.R. —
Result – MAJOR defeats See the B.C. disaster vote.
Simple P.R. –
Total Votes / Total Seats = EQUAL votes needed for each seat winner – via pre-election candidate rank order lists.
Winner excess votes down – loser votes up — cross district vote transfers.
Obviously candidates of the same party will rank each other highest — then other possible coalition parties.
Result – both majority rule and minority representation.
Who is the maniac who makes those curved nonwords in the ReCaptcha ???
http://www.fairvote.ca/resources/
Junior high school stuff – in the very laid back Canada regime — quite ready to fall apart – West, Central, Quebec, East coast.
More evidence of Canadian Exceptionalism
Demo Rep,
MMP is actually quite popular among PR-supporting Canadians. I would also point out that there are some non-party-list PR systems that are much simpler than STV.
Asset Voting
ScoreVoting.net/Asset.html
Proportional Score Voting (aka Reweighted Range Voting)
ScoreVoting.net/RRV.html
If you use the latter with only zero or 1 allowed for a score, then you get Proportional Approval Voting, which is so simple you can easily count it on a Google Docs spreadsheet, like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyLgDk8kbyI
Clay Shentrup
Berkeley, CA