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Dear Local Governance Reform Team,

I recently found out about your new document, What We Heard, and took a look at it. I am part of a group that sent over 70 letters expressing our desire for new legislation that will give NB municipalities the option to use ranked ballots.

I was dismayed to find no mention of this in the new document. It's called What We Heard, but apparently we weren't heard.

I understand that voting reform is not a priority for the Local Governance Reform Team. Nevertheless, if you make a document called What We Heard and fill it with the feedback you heard, do you not have a responsibility to fill said document with everything you heard? Even those things that you may not personally like?

I would like to know why we weren't heard. Is it a numbers thing? I thought 70-plus letters was pretty darn good for a tiny grassroots group. No doubt you would have heard from many more people on the subject of electoral reform if you had asked the question, the way you did with other issues such as lack of representation for LSDs.

Please let me know why we either weren't heard or were deemed unworthy of inclusion.

Disappointedly yours,

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