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STV-MMP would be good fusion

PR good for voter turnout

The NDP should repeat the UFA's 1924 change to PR

The Borda count can be used for multiple winners

Montopedia blogs on electoral reform 2021 Part 1

Rough PR produced by simple combo of Single Voting and multi-member district -- Puerto Rico

Montopedia blogs on history and other topics of 2021

List of electoral reform blogs of 2021

40 percent of Canadians vote same anywhere

STV -- where voters vote for candidates, not parties -- and where change is fair and not random

Dual Member Plurality and the Politics of Voting

Effective Voting

announcing new book -- When Canada Had "Effective Voting" STV in Western Canada 1917-1971

"Governments may get less, the same, or more support, and still be defeated..."

FPTP elections elect by plurality unfortunately - Governments rule by majorities

Majority versus simple lead in votes. Quota produces standardized representation.

"When Farmers Changed Voting" 1921 Alberta

UFA election in 1921 opened the door to electoral reform

Vancouver electoral reform

Red Deer present system not producing widely-approved council but ward election is no fix