[fvc-wat-disc] An Idea

[Bob Jonkman]

I had hoped we have all learned our lesson about the effectiveness of strategic voting -- it doesn't work.

Fair Vote itself is multi-partisan, and cannot endorse one party over another. Besides, there are too many members with affiliations to other parties to make strategic voting for one party acceptable. We'd lose more members than would be left to make strategic votes.

Leadnow may be more amenable to your suggestion.

--Bob. 

On February 2, 2017 10:04:45 AM EST, Donald Fraser <donaldafraser at gmail.com> wrote:
>I sent this suggestion to Leadnow HQ and I wonder if Jenn could pass it
>on
>for FVC  discussion.
>
>Also, what do the rest of you think?
>
>=====================
>
>All of us Waterloo Fair Voters are devastated, but I have an idea.
>
>Why not  harness all the energy and enthusiasm of Fair Vote Canada and
>Leadnow to work for and strategically vote for an NDP government in the
>next election (with the unwavering solid promise from Tom Mulcair or
>the
>next leader NOT to do what Justin just did) as a means to get MMPR
>which is
>the version preferred by the NDP. It means one more
>strategic-vote-election, but it would be the last.
>
>We would need to appeal to all our members (FVC and Leadnow) while the
>iron
>is hot BEFORE they go back to their respective parties. We would be
>asking
>them to BE partisan (NDP) for one term but if we succeeded, then we
>could
>from then on go back to voting for our parties of choice.
>
>An additional advantage is that we would have the national organization
>of
>the NDP to help educate the public about MMPR, which they would
>certainly
>do since it would be part of their platform.
>
>This happened in New Zealand ... the Labour government promised an
>election
>reform referendum and then sat on it and did nothing (like the
>Liberals).
>The National Party sensed a weakness and campaigned on a referendum
>themselves (possibly like the NDP) . They won and had to go through
>with
>the referendum which meant that NZ had a trial of 4 terms with MMPR.
>After
>that a referendum was held to see if the voters liked it ... they did
>and
>now NZ has MMPR permanently.
>
>https://en.wikipedia.org/.../Electoral_reform_in_New_Zealand
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