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: In the End, Quebecers Are Not All That Different From the Vast Majority of Canadians: They Prefer To Be Governed Than To Govern
Mercifully, this sorry spectacle of a general election in Quebec is over. I can’t remember a campaign so empty of any real debate as it came down to a choice between an extremely lame Charter of Values that would have banned the overly overt display of religious affiliation in the
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