[fvc-wat-announce] FW: electoral reform at the University of Waterloo

[Anita Nickerson]

Hi everyone. See this email from Kelsey Wagner wondering about a campaign for Fair Voting at U of W. If anyone is interested, please contact him directly and copy the list so we can work together.

 

Anita
 


From: kelseyrwagner at gmail.com
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 19:03:47 -0400
Subject: electoral reform at the University of Waterloo
To: onetann at hotmail.com

Hi Anita
My name is Kelsey Wagner.  I'm the President of the Ottawa-Gatineau chapter of Fair Vote Canada.  I wanted to congratulate you on your successful events with CAPP.  Just wondering if you're a university or college student.  I'm trying to help Fair Vote to reform elections at university and college students' unions.  You may be aware that Wilfrid Laurier's Students' Union will now be electing its executive using the Single Transferable Vote system (you may even have been involved in that, as was Sean Geobey, one of the members of Fair Vote Canada's National Council).  I've looked at the structure of University of Waterloo's Student Council, and with its multi-member constituencies from each faculty (based on the number of students in that faculty), I think it would be a good candidate for a switch from first-past-the-post to Single Transferable Vote.


Just checking to see if you're a student there, or know anyone who is who might be interested in pursuing this.  Fair Vote Canada has materials to support such a campaign, and I would be happy to help from Ottawa in any way I can, doing research into the relevant Council Procedures (p. 19-20):
http://governance.feds.ca/system/files/2009-04-02+Combined+Council+Procedures+1-18+including+November+changes+2008.pdf
and how to change them, and talking to people about the process.


Please let me know if you know anyone who's interested, or if I can help in any way.


Sincerely
Kelsey Wagner



 		 	   		  
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