05-25-2018, 02:06 PM
(05-25-2018, 12:52 PM)ijmorlan Wrote:(05-25-2018, 11:23 AM)tomh009 Wrote: Sadly the MMP option was resoundingly trounced in the 2007 referendum. And no one is talking about it now.
We should start by switching to ranked ballots for all elections in which voters choose one or more candidates to hold a position. This is not a change in the overall political system, only in the way the ballots are filled out and counted. As far as I’m concerned, this change should be made everywhere, from MP down to Grade 4 class president and everything in between.
Once that is done, eliminating the vote-splitting problem and the excessive difficulty and risk involved in getting rid of a bad* incumbent, then we can have a discussion of whether some sort of proportional system or other revision is desireable.
* Note: by “bad” I don’t mean “I don’t like them”, I mean “the populace at large doesn’t like them”.
It would still be a change in the electoral system, and at least this time around I don't think anyone is talking about that.