In this issue:

• Canada Day Action launches petition campaign
• Democracy Week is coming again, September 9 - 15!
• Veterans for Fair Voting

Canada Day Action launches petition campaign

Fair Vote Canada has established local Action Teams across the country to help volunteers work together to take action for democratic reform. The first action was to launch our formal petition campaign on Canada Day. Over 175 volunteers in 92 ridings began collecting signatures on our petition on July 1, and the signatures have been pouring in to our office!

Hot off the presses!!! OpaVote determines that Chocolate is the favorite ice cream flavor.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

PRLog (Press Release) - Jun 21, 2012 -
Just in time for the start of the summer season, OpaVote has determined that Chocolate is the universe's favorite ice cream flavor.

After a hotly contested race and four rounds of counting, Chocolate scooped the victory by soundly defeating the runner up, Chocolate Chip. Other flavors that melted under pressure were Vanilla, Strawberry, and Cookies and Cream. Complete results are available at http://www.opavote.org/results/100002/0.

The Fair Vote Canada Newsletter for June 2012 is available online here.

In this issue:

• ‘Blackmark’ Budget latest result of winner-take-all system
• Results announced for FVC National Council elections
• Fair Vote Canada AGM lives up to its hype!
• 2012 Campaign Directions Survey Results
• Voting Systems Lesson Plan

‘Blackmark’ Budget latest result of winner-take-all system

Fair Vote says omnibus budget a direct result of skewed voting system’s ‘war on accountability’

Hello OpaVote and OpenSTV supporters,

OpaVote now allows you to upload a ballot file, count the ballots (using OpenSTV behind the scenes), and then display the results using bar charts. You can see an example here based on the 2007 Scottish STV elections.

The primary use cases for this are:
(1) You hold an election with OpaVote but you need to add ballots collected in other ways (e.g., paper ballots) before announcing the official results.
(2) You collect all of your ballots in other ways, but you want a way to share detailed election results with voters.

In this issue, which is available here and copied below:

• NDP chooses leader committed to proportional representation
• Voting under way for FVC National Council elections
• Registration now open for Fair Vote Canada AGM to be held in Toronto May 26
• We salute these friends of Fair Vote Canada!

NDP chooses leader committed to proportional representation

Will seek mandate for electoral reform in next election

Fair Vote Canada (FVC) congratulates Thomas Mulcair, a proponent of proportional representation, on winning the leadership of the federal New Democratic Party.