Dear Members and Supporters of Fair Voting BC:

Thanks for Your Amazing Efforts

Resignations from Board of Directors

Following the conclusion of the recent referendum campaign, several of our long-time directors have decided to step back from their positions on the board.  We greatly appreciate their contributions to the electoral reform movement, thank them for their service and wish them all the best as they get re-acquainted with their families.

We hope that all of you will take advantage of this opportunity to
provide input into the future direction of electoral reform here in our
province and look forward to your continued participation in any of the
several active discussions now underway.  In particular, we would like
to call your attention to the following resources:

1) New Directions Committee

 - collecting all input on future mission and activities of Fair Voting BC

 - generating ideas to put forward to membership

 - fairly regular email activity over summer, some phone meetings likely

 - email Arjun Singh - arjun@stv.ca - if interested or for more information

 2) Planning AGM Committee

 - collect input about structure and timing of fall AGM

 - propose dates, location, and agenda of fall AGM to board

We at Fair Voting BC have shifted our efforts from this website to our Main BC-STV Campaign website at stv.ca. Please visit us there.

This site is authorized by Jamie Dieth, financial agent, British Columbians for BC-STV, 604-484-2979.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - August 15, 2007
VICTORIA -- Fair Voting BC President Bruce Hallsor welcomed the release of the Draft Electoral Boundaries Commission report today.

Note: This is from Fair Vote Canada, not FVBC (reproduced by permission)

FAIR VOTE CANADA - May 29, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Once again, last night's election in Prince Edward Island has delivered a provincial legislature vastly different than the wishes expressed by voters at the polling station.

1) Upcoming Fair Voting Convention

2) We're looking for riding campaign co-ordinaters

3) Electoral boundaries commission.

4) Federal NDP has put forward a member's bill on electoral reform

5) Ontario's Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform

6) The Ontario government chooses the same thresholds as BC!!

7) Scotland will be using STV for their local elections this week

8) Victoria, Australia uses STV for the first time

9) U.S. Elections show clear majorities for Electoral Reform

VICTORIA -- Fair Voting BC director Julian West is joining an international team which will observe next week's elections in London and Scotland. Both jurisdictions use proportional representation in their elections.

On the heels of recent votes by several US cities to adopt STV-type
voting systems, the Australian state of Victoria has held its first STV
election this past weekend. Victoria is the last of Australia's five
bicameral state legislatures to adopt proportional representation to
elect at least one of its houses. The method aopted there was very
similar to the Single Transferable Voting system that the BC Citizens'
Assembly recommended for BC and which won 58% support in the 2005
referendum.

"The state of Victoria is similar to BC in many ways," says Bruce