http://www.votepair.ca Fri, 08 May 2009 04:07:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.votepair.ca/bc-2009/friday-last-day-to-register-for-vote-swapping/ 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. I am frustrated that a party with a decent ... http://www.votepair.ca/bc-2009/why-people-are-vote-swapping/ 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. Given the low numbers, there aren't a lot ... http://www.votepair.ca/bc-2009/one-week-to-go-vote-for-ideal-swaps/ 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 ... http://www.votepair.ca/bc-2009/so-how-might-the-vote-result-look-under-stv-try-this-simulator/ 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.  We have decided to come back to support the provincial election as well ... http://www.votepair.ca/bc-2009/vote-swapping-goes-west/ 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. Sadly, I haven't found my ... http://www.votepair.ca/general/regaining-momentum-changecamp/ 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? All of us would love to get more ... http://www.votepair.ca/canada-2008/where-next/ "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. Thanks, Gerry, for putting this site together, but in future elections I hope it isn't necessary because we will be able to vote in a ... http://www.votepair.ca/canada-2008/final-report/ 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. The prospect is for more hung Parliaments, more bootless elections, more stall ... http://www.votepair.ca/canada-2008/an-election-without-winners/ Two of the most tightly-contested ridings in the 2008 Federal Election were largely influenced by the vote swapping phenomenon. Esquimalt Juan de Fuca and Edmonton-Strathcona benefited from the decisions of some voters to swap their preferred votes with voters in other parts of the country, through the anti-Harper Vote Swap facebook ... http://www.votepair.ca/canada-2008/breaking-news-vote-swapping-helps-swing-at-least-two-ridings/