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Offline waldo

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Re: Government Day-to-Day
« Reply #870 on: November 23, 2020, 01:21:08 pm »
For every example of countries that have had issues with a proportional system, you can find several others where it has been a success.

and yet, somehow, you've never addressed the types of known failures possible; again, the word 'proportional' is your only driver - notwithstanding your questionable (unqualified and lacking in detail) references to Germany... to New Zealand... to Australia. Again, the principal Australia electoral system remains as AV - not proportional; again, Germany & New Zealand have MMP electoral systems that are only partially proportional. You appear to have no qualms in simply dropping country names as having proportional electoral systems - country name dropping without adding qualification and detail explaining the full nature of their respective electoral systems! 

The choice was clear with the first referendum and if it had been run under the same rules as the last one it would have passed comfortably. The last referendum was a joke, I knew it wouldn't pass as soon as I read the ballot. It was so amateurish it was like it was designed to fail and I'm not sure it wasn't.

again, notwithstanding both referendums failed to reach the necessary threshold percentage to realize a change to PR, for someone like you so steeped in the "mythology of proportional representation", the irony is off the charts in that you B.C. PR proponents would have had no objection to a fraction of B.C. voters choosing a new electoral system... one that was short on specifics and that few understood.

I don't know where you got those numbers but why wouldn't you be happy with 100%? But then for a guy who is happy with 39% majorities, that shouldn't be surprising.

again, unsurprisingly, your presumptive "100%" fell flat with the country examples you offered up. If you don't care for those numbers I provided for proportionality of past B.C. elections, please provide your alternative (presumably preferred) numbers - yes?
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