That mischievous Jennifer Pagliaro of the Toronto Star has published a small chart with the names of councillors who got less than 50 percent of the popular vote in the 2014 election. The reason she is up to such things? Because these ten joined 12 others to vote down exploring the concept of ranked ballots for the 2022 election. Ranked ballots are said to provide a more democratic outcome by giving voters a chance to pick a first and second choice. If the “winner” has less than 50 percent of the votes, there is an automatic recount in which first and second choices are combined to find a 50 percent plus winner. You be the judge. Those voting in favour by the way (17 of them) were Ainslie, Balao, Carroll, Cole, Cressy, Davis, Doucette, Filion, Fletcher, Fragedakis, Layton, Lee, Matlow, McConnell, McMahon, Mihevc, Moeser, Parks, Tory, Wong Tam.
Here is the list of cllrs that voted against studying ranked ballots, with those who received less than 50% of the vote in 2014 highlighted pic.twitter.com/tbzDkLeCFd
— Jennifer Pagliaro (@jpags) December 14, 2016
