Reality of electoral reform

Dear Editor,

Voters need to get a grip on the reality that electoral reform is just not going to happen. Not proportional representation, nor the preferential ballot.

The reason why it won’t happen is that the corporation’s writers and pundits are already engaged in throwing out roadblocks.

Let’s be clear, the corporations run the political party administration, which runs the country.

That is how power flows. Yet all is not lost.

If we, the voters, want to have a voice in the administration of our public affairs, then it is within our grasp, even within our existing first-past-the-post system.

The key to power is access to those we elect, and through him/her, the bureaucracy that exercises the ruling power, be it political party or civic department.

The turnkey is for voters in each poll to appoint or elect a person in each poll with access to the person we elect.

That access will subvert the political party’s power over our elected representative.

Political parties set voters against each other. However, it has been proven that those with an interest in a democratic operation of public affairs have much more in common than with those who have no such interest, but merely vote as a civic duty.

Ed Goertzen