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Re: Petition #2
I don¡¯t object to your new format, Vivian, though I do have a few suggestions. In the third sentence, I¡¯d change ¡°an election¡± to ¡°the majority of seats¡±. In the fifth sentence, I¡¯d say
By John Filliter · #34 ·
Re: Petition #2
Thank you so much for your work on this Vivian. I like the way you think. I am totally ok with this version of the petition, and, once I am settled in the house here, I will endeavour to carry a copy
By Patti Chmelyk · #33 ·
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No worries Vivian. :O) Looks great...well done! Andrea
By Andrea Francis <andrealgfrancis2019@...> · #32 ·
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Thanks Tom!
By Vivian · #31 ·
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Looks great. Tom Hart
By T.J. Hart · #30 ·
Petition #2
Hello again, I hope I'm not driving you all nuts with this, but I've rewritten the petition. You see, I got to thinking about literacy. If we're going to reach more people, we need more accessible
By Vivian · #29 ·
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Looks good to me, Vivian. John
By John Filliter · #28 ·
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OK, how about this then? "We ask that your honourable house convene a Citizen's Assembly to design and implement a better electoral system in time for the 2024 election."
By Vivian · #27 ·
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Sounds good, Vivian. You might add something like ¡°to have a new system in place in time for the next general election." John
By John Filliter · #26 ·
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I don¡¯t have a coloured map, Vivian. If I could find it, I had done a calculation of how that PR system I devised would have worked out. It might have been in one of those letters to the editor I
By John Filliter · #25 ·
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How about this for an alternate ending? We ask that your honourable house convene a Citizen's Assembly to design a better electoral system for New Brunswick. wrote:
By Vivian · #24 ·
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I think it's a good idea too. I could have an asterisk, like: * Artist's rendering of the popular vote within electoral districts I should also have a legend for the colours, rather than assuming that
By Vivian · #23 ·
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I think that¡¯s a good idea, James. I don¡¯t know exactly which colours apply to which ridings but I have broken the province up into four regions (Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, and Southwest) by
By John Filliter · #22 ·
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Does anyone think it would useful to add a note explaining that the additional colouring only represents the proportion of votes cast in an area, not the geographical distribution of the votes? James
By James Hartley · #21 ·
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Yay! Thank you. ? wrote:
By Vivian · #20 ·
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For you, happy to put an opt-out box :)
By Anita Nickerson <anita.nickerson@...> · #19 ·
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Yes, that's the idea. I looked at the vote % in each riding, and painted in the other party colours in approximately the right amount. I tried to be artsy about it; so if the riding next to it voted
By Vivian · #18 ·
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That¡¯s an interesting map, Vivian. It looks like it¡¯s intended to represent portions of regions by the way they voted. John
By John Filliter · #17 ·
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Thanks for the offer to host the petition, Anita. I'm happy to take you up on that as long as we can give people an opt-out if they want to sign the petition but they don't want to end up subscribed
By Vivian · #16 ·
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This is good, Vivian! Since it's not an official petition why bother with that humbly language at the end? People won't know why it's there. You can probably guess that I'd rather see an ask for a
By Anita Nickerson <anita.nickerson@...> · #15 ·