Four years ago I wrote a similar blog about how the voting system distorts the popular vote and produces a government that the people did not vote for. As is quite often the case with the first-past-the-post method, 40% of the vote produces 60% of the seats in Parliament, thereby giving 100%
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the disgruntled democrat: Once Again Huge Distortions of the Popular Vote Mire Canadian Election Results
Four years ago I wrote a similar blog about how the voting system distorts the popular vote and produces a government that the people did not vote for. As is quite often the case with the first-past-the-post method, 40% of the vote prod…
Continue readingthe disgruntled democrat: Once Again Huge Distortions of the Popular Vote Mire Canadian Election Results
Four years ago I wrote a similar blog about how the voting system distorts the popular vote and produces a government that the people did not vote for. As is quite often the case with the first-past-the-post method, 40% of the vote produces 60% of the seats in Parliament, thereby giving 100%
Continue readingthe disgruntled democrat: You Were Right Kim, An Election Is No Time To Discuss Serious Issues
Back in the 1993 Canadian General Election the then Prime Minister of Canada, Kim Campbell, in a moment of candor declared that “an election in no time to discuss serious issues,” and judging by the manner in which the 2015 Canadian General Election has unfolded, she was right, at least
Continue readingthe disgruntled democrat: You Were Right Kim, An Election Is No Time To Discuss Serious Issues
Back in the 1993 Canadian General Election the then Prime Minister of Canada, Kim Campbell, in a moment of candor declared that “an election in no time to discuss serious issues,” and judging by the manner in which the 2015 Canadian General Election ha…
Continue readingthe disgruntled democrat: You Were Right Kim, An Election Is No Time To Discuss Serious Issues
Back in the 1993 Canadian General Election the then Prime Minister of Canada, Kim Campbell, in a moment of candor declared that “an election in no time to discuss serious issues,” and judging by the manner in which the 2015 Canadian General Election has unfolded, she was right, at least
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