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darkknight109 posted...

Ranked ballots consolidate power in the political middle, so of course the centrist Liberals are in support of it - they might never lose another election if they'd succeeded in passing it (and even as a Liberal supporter I think that's a bad thing). And Proportional Representation grants the most power to smaller political parties, so naturally that's what the NDP and the Greens support, because it's pretty much their only reliable path to being in government, albeit as part of a coalition.

Ranked Ballot doesn't do as much to eliminate split voting the way PropRep does, but honestly, I think the NDP and Greens would have a much stronger showing than they probably think under Ranked Ballot. I volunteered for the Green Party briefly when my sister ran in our riding (before the party came to its senses and pulled her as their candidate), and good god, the number of people who said "I'd vote Green, but they just aren't electable" when choosing Liberal. I know it's anecdotal, but even if it's only true regionally, it's a start.

And until they shoved Trudeau into the spotlight, the NDP was gutting the liberal party, and that Liberal momentum won't last forever. Things are already swinging back, and even a lot of Liberals are kinda wishing we still had Harper. The NDP can leverage that under Ranked Ballot FAR more effectively than FPTP.
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