Comments on: Almost-All-Candidates Meeting http://www.flyingsquirrel.ca/index.php/2008/09/30/almost-all-candidates-meeting/ Darcy Casselman's weblog. Like the world needed another one. Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:01:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Darcy Casselman http://www.flyingsquirrel.ca/index.php/2008/09/30/almost-all-candidates-meeting/comment-page-1/#comment-220 Darcy Casselman Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:33:59 +0000 http://www.flyingsquirrel.ca/?p=181#comment-220 <p>I have nothing against MMP: I voted for it. Given it's reception by Ontario voters, I don't think it has legs as a reform idea, even if the actual proposition wasn't technically ideal. That's all I'm saying.</p> I have nothing against MMP: I voted for it. Given it’s reception by Ontario voters, I don’t think it has legs as a reform idea, even if the actual proposition wasn’t technically ideal. That’s all I’m saying.

]]> By: Wilf Day http://www.flyingsquirrel.ca/index.php/2008/09/30/almost-all-candidates-meeting/comment-page-1/#comment-219 Wilf Day Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:09:26 +0000 http://www.flyingsquirrel.ca/?p=181#comment-219 <p>The mixed-member proportional model for the Ontario referendum had closed province-wide lists. The Citizens' Assembly Chair stated this spring that, if they had had more time to deliberate, they would likely have reconsidered this point.</p> <p>A model with open regional lists, as used in Bavaria, lets voters cast one vote for their local MP, and a second for their party and a candidate for regional MP. So the regional MPs not only compensate for disproportional local results, but were also chosen by the voters to represent those voters whose votes would otherwise have elected no one.</p> <p>Quebec is still debating electoral reform, including the current report from their Chief Elections Officer recommending just such a regional model. So stay tuned.</p> The mixed-member proportional model for the Ontario referendum had closed province-wide lists. The Citizens’ Assembly Chair stated this spring that, if they had had more time to deliberate, they would likely have reconsidered this point.

A model with open regional lists, as used in Bavaria, lets voters cast one vote for their local MP, and a second for their party and a candidate for regional MP. So the regional MPs not only compensate for disproportional local results, but were also chosen by the voters to represent those voters whose votes would otherwise have elected no one.

Quebec is still debating electoral reform, including the current report from their Chief Elections Officer recommending just such a regional model. So stay tuned.

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