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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

Victoria, BC - Final US local election results, released yesterday,
show the clean sweep continues for STV in North America. Following BC's
58% vote to approve STV in 2005, four US jurisdictions approved a
change to an STV or similar voting system this week.

Minneapolis voted 65% in favor of adopting STV for all their
municipal elections, including their elected council, parks board,
library board, and estimate and taxation board.