Election results prove B.C. needs modernized voting system

By MAXWELL ANDERSON B.C. Premier David Eby had been an amazing young man, defender of the downtrodden as a lawyer, exactly the sort of person you would want to run for office and win. He campaigned hard. Rose to the top. Seemingly a win for the good guys. The system sucked him in and destroyed him. In 2009 he told me he supported proportional representation of voters, the family of voting systems that study after study have shown produces better governance. Yet in B.C.’s 2018 referendum on electoral reform, as Attorney General of B.C., he dutifully served the NDP in pretending to support fair voting while actually deep-sixing it by a variety of means: grossly inadequate financing for informing the public; giving equal financing for fear-mongering publicity on behalf of unfair voting; giving no personal support to fair voting; and designing a referendum ballot with so many choices it clearly conveyed that the government itself had no idea what was best for B.C.

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