Every voter has a single, transferable, vote. This means they vote for candidates in order of preference, giving a number 1 to their favourite, 2 to their next choice, 3 to the next and so on. They are not obliged to vote for more than ...

Many Albertans would agree that electoral reform is needed – probably some version of proportional representation. Of course the present government has no interest in this as it benefits from our dysfunctional first-past-the-post system ...

There are different forms of Pr, such as party-list proportional representation, however, I believe that the Single Transferable Vote system would be the ideal. Again referring to AbsoluteAstronomy.com's encyclopedic definition, ...

Conversely, the match between votes and seats was much closer in the 2006 upper house election, the first conducted under proportional representation (PR), with the state divided into eight regions, each returning five members. ...

Read the full article at OpEdNews.com. Activists across the political spectrum were universally dismayed with last year's Supreme Court decision in Citizens.