Pair Vote (Swap) - Canada Election 2008

 
Pair Vote (Swap) - Canada Election 2008
I’ll be matching voters as best as I can on Saturday, so that there is enough time for people to contact each other ahead of vote day. That makes Friday the last day to sign up! Help me do a good job of matching by reviewing the potential matches and adding your comments. ...
Pair Vote (Swap) - Canada Election 2008
A roundup of comments submitted by vote swappers: Kevin Kruger (the worker whacker). Do I need to further explain? Liberal will most likely win in my riding and my vote will be useless. I want a Green Party candidate to win in some riding...
Pair Vote (Swap) - Canada Election 2008
Response has been very quiet in comparison to the vote swapping in the federal campaign. Not exactly sure why that is, I haven’t had any media requests this time around so I hope that is because STV is getting all the attention heh. ...
Pair Vote (Swap) - Canada Election 2008
I found a great tool which allows one to see the impact of the STV voting system. First thing I did was to simplify how many parties there are, mostly because it made it a lot easier to see the final outcome and it was less clicking. You need to have Java installed for this application...
Pair Vote (Swap) - Canada Election 2008
Pair Vote is back for the provincial election in British Columbia!! The great success and positive momentum gained in the federal election has spurred us on to continue this movement until a true democratic system is created...
Pair Vote (Swap) - Canada Election 2008
Wow, has it really been 3.5 months since the end of the federal election and the Pair Vote campaign? Much has happened since then to keep the vote reform issue alive, most notably the coalition crisis, something that would have never occurred under a PR system...
Pair Vote (Swap) - Canada Election 2008October 29, 2008 at 2:08pm · Report
Pair Vote (Swap) - Canada Election 2008
The people behind the two vote swapping efforts are meeting together shortly to plot the demise of our First Past The Post voting system. Here is your chance to voice your ideas. A few things I am curious about: Should we ask for donations...
John Morris
John Morris
Why is it that people who do not get the result they wished for.....feel so compelled to say the result was bogus and we need to change an election system that has worked in the british empire for over 400 years. The French cook. The Germans engineer. The British understand democracy. Let it go people.
January 12 at 7:33pm
Pair Vote (Swap) - Canada Election 2008
“I ultimately would like to see the Canadian election system overhauled away from the first-past-the-post fiasco that so poorly represents the actual intentions of voters. ...
Pair Vote (Swap) - Canada Election 2008
At some point it will occur to someone: we have a democratic crisis on our hands — a crisis of legitimacy, a crisis of efficacy. We are stuck, spinning our wheels, unable to find a sense of direction. ...
Pair Vote (Swap) - Canada Election 2008
Two of the most tightly-contested ridings in the 2008 Federal Election were largely influenced by the vote swapping phenomenon...
Pair Vote (Swap) - Canada Election 2008
The past few days have seen a surge in signups, and will likely continue until Friday, the last day of registration...
Pair Vote (Swap) - Canada Election 2008
Time for an update, and probably this will be my last significant post before the election, as I will be away at a conference from Tuesday - Sunday. Great timing, I know. Thanks, Stephen, maybe next time consult with me on the date, ok...
Pair Vote (Swap) - Canada Election 2008
Four days is a long time for me to not post anything. I’ve had to switch gears this past week and focus on the process of pairing voters, stopping my marketing efforts, like tracking blog posts and Twitter tweets, as well as posting info to Facebook. ...
Pair Vote (Swap) - Canada Election 2008
Note: both of these sites provide analysis for the traditonal form of strategic voting, which means voting for a party to keep another party from winning, rather than the party you prefer to support. A better alternative, in my biased view, is pair voting...