Better Ballots - Join us at a Town Hall - April 13, 20, 26 or 27

I've been doing a lot of work with the Better Ballots initiative over the past few months. The purpose of Better Ballots is to expose Torontonians to some of the ways that we could conduct municipal elections in Toronto a little differently than we do now.

The upcoming Town Halls are your opportunity to learn about the various options and to provide us your thoughts on them. With your input we'll know what voters in Toronto are ready to support and what they think we could do without. I hope you can make it out to one of the events. You can sign up below.

Thanks!

Better Ballots announces Town Hall meetings across Toronto

Civic elections in Toronto are not meeting our expectations.

Turnout is surprisingly low. New faces on City Council are uncommon. Candidates can 'win' a seat with as low as 20% of the vote. And perhaps most importantly, our City Council does not reflect the evolving demographic of Toronto’s diverse population.

Should Toronto have municipal parties? Term limits? A lower voting age? Ranked ballots? Multi-member wards? Borough councils? Online voting? Finance reforms?

Join us at the Better Ballots Town Hall meetings to learn about fourteen specific ideas that could make Toronto's elections more inclusive, diverse and fair. What are the possible benefits and concerns for each proposal?

This is your chance to learn about options for election reform in Toronto and to join the discussion.

Website: http://www.betterballots.to/townhalls.htm

Facebook events:

North York (April 13): http://bit.ly/betterballots_NORTH
Scarborough (April 20) : http://bit.ly/betterballots_EAST
City Hall (April 26): http://bit.ly/betterballots
Etobicoke (April 27): http://bit.ly/betterballots_WEST

Let's raise our expectations and work towards a voting system that meets them.

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