[fvc-wat-announce] Reminder: Discussion Night 7pm Wed, 31 Oct 2018 at Bread & Roses Community Room

[Bob Jonkman]

Hi everyone: Just a quick reminder of the Fair Vote Waterloo Discussion
Night tomorrow (Wednesday):

*What*: FairvoteWRC Discussion Night: Weighted First-Past-The-Post
*When*: Wednesday, 31 October 2018 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm
*Where*: Community Room, Bread and Roses Co-op
*Location*: 307 Queen Street South, Kitchener
*Map*: https://osm.org/go/ZXnwTLMg--?m=

Larry Kryski will be presenting his solution for proportional
representation, a weighted vote in parliament.

Since it's Hallowe'en some people will be delayed from giving candy to
the little monsters, so Larry's presentation will start sometime after
7:30pm

In the meantime, there are lots of other things worthy of discussion:

* We just had a municipal election, where ranked ballots became a thing.
What can Fair Vote Waterloo do to encourage the adoption of ranked
ballots in multi-member wards to achieve proportional representation?

* Some people from Fair Vote Waterloo spent some time canvassing
door-to-door. What were the results? We'll get a quick report from the
participants.

* Acronyms: Based on a thread in the Discussion mailing list, we've been
using many acronyms like PR, ER, RB, MMP and so forth. The jargon is
obscuring our message.  I've compiled a short list, but let's work on
creating a more comprehensive glossary of terms that we can post on the
Resources page of our website.

STV - Single Transferable Vote
MMP - Mixed Member Proportional
DMP - Dual Member Proportional
RUP - Rural-Urban Proportional
AV - Alternative Vote
IRV - Instant Runoff Voting (same thing as AV)
PB - Preferential Ballot (same thing as AV)
FPTP - First Past The Post
SMP - Single Member Plurality (fancy words for FPTP)
RB - Ranked Ballot (used by STV, AV, IRV, PB)
PR - Proportional Representation
ProRep - Proportional Representation
ER - Electoral Reform

MP - Member of Parliament
MPP - Member of Provincial Parliament

AMA - Ask Me Anything (online interview on Reddit)


Anything else?



If you're driving to Bread And Roses, please park in the north parking
lot and place a note on the dashboard of your vehicle:

*Meeting in Community Room re Apt 107 from 7-9pm*

See you there!

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