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Re:Maine Becomes First State to Use Ranked-Choice Voting in ... by tlavoie on Saturday October 31, 2020 @02:04PM (#24953736)
Sure, but federal electoral reform was one of Trudeau's platform items before he got elected.

Once he got in... it seems suddenly less interesting. I would dearly love to see this get done here. In BC, there was an attempt to get it in, but province-wide, the results of voting weren't there.

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Re:Maine Becomes First State to Use Ranked-Choice Voting in ... by Afton on Sunday November 01, 2020 @11:45AM (#24960643)
Trudeau's flip flop is an example of what I'm talking about, so i don't understand your use of the word "but" in the first sentence. Once in power, a party is interested in maintaining that power. Since the current system got them into power, they are unlikely to be interested in reforming it (other than with a system that would solidify it more).

I don't live in BC anymore, so hadn't realized that there had been another vote in 2018. That is disappointing.

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