What’s the deal with this single transferable vote? Well I think it is probably the only exciting thing about the upcoming election.
The May 17 provincial election ballot in British Columbia will contain a referendum question about whether the province should switch to a new method of voting, called the single transferable vote.
The Citizens Assembly, which proposed the concept, shows how the proposed system works.
Here’s the link to the Citizensassembly.bc.ca Resource page with a flash animation on how it works.