The Election Proved Vancouver Islanders and Canadians Have Diverse Opinions – Proportional Representation Now.

(The following letter was sent to the Alberni Valley News, Times Colonist, Nanaimo News Bulletin, National Post, and Globe and Mail) What an election on Vancouver Island. We rocked that vote. Turnout was a minimum of 72.6% in North Island-Powell River to 77.8% in Saanich-Gulf Islands. Well done all! (Data from: elections.ca) Of course now …

Followup Blog: Graphs from the Referendum

I wrote a blog a few weeks ago poking at the media for making such a big kerfuffle about the “low turnout” in the Referendum after just a few days of data coming back from Elections BC.  I noted the differences in numbers indicated a likely connection to patterns in how ballots were mailed out, …

Don’t Panic, just Vote! (and return your ballot)

Updated graphs to Nov 16 and Added individual coloured ridings graphs at bottom. Update 2: Elections BC announces actual packages returned so far. I see this Global News report that Elections BC is changing the way it is announcing numbers of ballots received. Turns out they have already received almost 20% but the number on …