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May. 4th, 2011 10:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_fantastic_ms_foxSupervillain-esque plan for electoral reform, as recently posted on Facebook:
As for strategic voting and vote-swapping, and otherwise working within the system rather than changing it - here's an alternative which I prefer:
1. Find swing-riding candidates who drag their feet on replacing FPTP and/or the Senate.
2. Run people against them who have some combination of similar platforms (i.e. Conservative/Christian Heritage), party names (i.e. Liberal/Libertarian), sign-colours, and/or who just have similar names. This may involve donating money and/or time to a party you don't like, but as long as we're thinking "strategically," why not?
3. See if they're still in favour of FPTP after the election is done.
I have seen this done. Vancouver 2005. Very effective.
Thoughts?
As for strategic voting and vote-swapping, and otherwise working within the system rather than changing it - here's an alternative which I prefer:
1. Find swing-riding candidates who drag their feet on replacing FPTP and/or the Senate.
2. Run people against them who have some combination of similar platforms (i.e. Conservative/Christian Heritage), party names (i.e. Liberal/Libertarian), sign-colours, and/or who just have similar names. This may involve donating money and/or time to a party you don't like, but as long as we're thinking "strategically," why not?
3. See if they're still in favour of FPTP after the election is done.
I have seen this done. Vancouver 2005. Very effective.
Thoughts?