Electoral Reform committee  That's a smart question.

Electoral Reform committee  Une bonne question. I would refer to what Marie Burge from the Cooper Institute said earlier. She spoke about a referendum on a question that requires people to create new knowledge. We are very actively trying to educate people about the plebiscite, the vote coming up in P.E.

Electoral Reform committee  I would really like to be home with my nine-month-old baby right now. Most of you probably have better things to do as well. I would love to be investing my time in developing a sustainable transport system for P.E.I. or working on my dance school, or these sorts of things. If i

Electoral Reform committee  I wish I had brought with me a sample ballot for DMP. I don't have it with me, but I believe Sean Graham provided you with one last week in Alberta. Parties can run either just one single candidate or they can run a primary and a secondary candidate, but in addition, independent

Electoral Reform committee  Yes, I agree. That applies to urban and rural voters as well, and this is again one of the things that I really like about dual member proportional. It doesn't discriminate against you based on where in the country you live. On the topic of optional and mandatory voting, one of

Electoral Reform committee  Dawn, you would probably know the actual statistics on this more. When you require people to show up, you get 95% voter turnout.

Electoral Reform committee  Exactly. You can't stand over somebody and force them to make a choice, but you can require that they show up, and whether that's virtual or in person is a great question.

Electoral Reform committee  I'll jump into this one. The lower house in Australia uses preferential voting. I think the important thing to remember about preferential voting, from my perspective, is that, sure, it feels better to the voter when you cast your vote, because you don't have to vote strategical

Electoral Reform committee  This is a sneaky trick question. I think one of the things that can be hard for people to understand at first is that in most districts, whoever is the most popular party and whoever is the second most popular party will both have their representatives elected in that district,

Electoral Reform committee  There's also one that I created back in February before the P.E.I. electoral commission, which I did with my father-in-law narrating it. It's the DMP explained in under two minutes. So have a look at that.

Electoral Reform committee  Yes.

Electoral Reform committee  That is a concern that has been raised by one of the people who have shown a lot of interest in the model from Fair Vote Canada. That person has been wanting to learn more about the model and is trying to figure it out and has raised that as a potential concern. I would say tha

Electoral Reform committee  I loved mandatory voting. I found it shocking that it was optional to vote when I moved to other countries. If it's the norm in the country you're from, it's quite surprising that the majority of countries in the world have it be optional. The reason that I am a huge fan of mand

Electoral Reform committee  Sure. I want to clarify that in Sean Graham's models and also the models that I've done for P.E.I. for the last six elections for the MP, pairing his neighbouring riding would be a convenient way to manage the data, but in practice it wouldn't be a prudent thing to have a boundar

Electoral Reform committee  The best runner-up, yes. It is similar to that system, but I have not looked into the Baden-Württemberg system in enough detail to be able to pull out the similarities.