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Showing posts with label electoral reform. Show all posts
Showing posts with label electoral reform. Show all posts
13 May 2019

Ego, Brain Farts, and Electoral Reform #nlpoli

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Public ignorance of our political system is a scourge.  Tackling that is the first step to meaningful electoral reform in Newfoundland and ...
13 January 2015

All NL parties agree to anti-democratic, regressive cuts to legislature #nlpoli

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Whenever the provincial government gets into financial trouble, someone will suggest that one great way to save money would be to cut the nu...
11 September 2011

On missing the point

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Mark Watton has been leading the charge against sections of the province’s election laws that allow people to vote when there is no electio...
25 August 2011

Compounding the abuse #nlpoli

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It wasn’t bad enough that the province’s special ballot laws make a mockery of democracy. For the 2011 general election, the province’s el...
21 July 2011

Nurturing a democratic revolution

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Public life in Newfoundland and Labrador remains as fundamentally undemocratic as it ever was. Paternalism remains the order of the day. ...
19 May 2011

Dunderdale opts for mid-level bureaucrat as CEO

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Not so long ago the province’s chief electoral officer was a career public servant usually of deputy minister rank. Then Danny Williams de...
08 November 2010

My own electoral grandpa: vote in an election that isn’t happening yet

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Danny Williams is worried that local politics is being more like the American system. Much like the more benighted souls in some parts of ...
23 April 2007

And speaking of electoral reform...

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There's the case of Rob Anders, as viewed by the National Post' s Don Mills .