My back-of-the-envelope math based on the numbers from Elections Canada is giving me 30.4% (7 291 649 votes out of 23 971 740 registered electors).
Anyway my point is that making Harper's numbers look tinier by playing with the math cuts both ways and distracts from the essential argument: that FPTP gives us the appearance of majority agreement where there is none.
I'm not keen on mandatory voting or proportional representation, but I am all over runoff voting.
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Date: 2011-05-05 05:13 pm (UTC)Anyway my point is that making Harper's numbers look tinier by playing with the math cuts both ways and distracts from the essential argument: that FPTP gives us the appearance of majority agreement where there is none.
I'm not keen on mandatory voting or proportional representation, but I am all over runoff voting.