BC-STV - Power Up Your Vote

British Columbia is in the final stages of a provincial election. That's probably the least interesting thing that's going on May 12th. Along with electing the next bunch of snake oil salesmen (er...salespersons), BC voters will be making a decision on a radically new way of electing our representatives. It's called the Single Transferrable Vote.

Predictably, there are dissenters, but the best they can come up with as a reason to defeat this referendum is that the proposed system is "too complicated".

As citizens in the 21st Century, there are many things in our lives that are complicated. Computers, modern vehicles, disease epidemiology, flying a modern jetliner, medical technology, balancing your bank statements....all come to mind. And yet, almost all of us embrace or at least use and often trust all of these and more. C'mon people. It's not like you have to completely understand the STV system just to recognize that it could be a big improvement over what we have now. It's really easy to use. "Too complicated" just isn't a good enough reason. And it's not really all "that" complicated....