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Where did you come across this knowledge?

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It's pretty easy to infer that if X number of people voted one time for nothing and half as many (of those same people) voted the second time around, that people changed their minds.

More people, like communist, saying 'rural voters have too much voting power' will certainly do the trick.

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communist is racist against rurals.

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I believe you are looking for the term “prejudiced,” since racism is a specific form of prejudice that doesn’t apply to “rurals.”
I said nothing about “rurals.” I said people in less-populated ridings. And my point is irrefutably true. Whether these ridings are rural or urban is beside the point.

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It's pretty easy to infer that if X number of people voted one time for nothing and half as many (of those same people) voted the second time around, that people changed their minds.

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Yes, we all know. If you were semi-intelligent, you’d realise that I am capable of observing the obvious, so my question was not about whether or not they changed their minds. We all know they did. My question was:

Where did you come across the knowledge that the reason that their minds changed is that they educated themselves.

And now paraphrased, but I am sure you will just answer a different question anyways: How do you know that education caused the change?

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Sorry, once again I thought you were smart enough to understand a simple point: The public likely felt it overly complicates the electoral process.

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The public may believe that it overly complicates the electoral process. But why should the public care about how complicated or simple the electoral process is? It has no relevance to them. What are relevant to them are fairness and the voting process. If we can increase fairness with minimal complications to the voting process, then why worry about how complicated the electoral process is?

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I mean, that's what it's about, right? It's not just about "voting".

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For the general public, the issue of FPTP or BC-STV is only about fairness and voting.

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More people, like communist, saying 'rural voters have too much voting power' will certainly do the trick.

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More people, like _Stranger_, inventing quotes and attributing them to others will decrease their credibility and make themselves appear even stupider than they already appear.

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fyi, no one cares

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True. But pointing out truths is easy. Finding their underlying causes and addressing them isn’t.

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what a humorlous, rigid wind-bag. Is this guy for real?

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Way to avoid the issue, again.

stranger would have a point if the reps for each riding actually spoke for and made a difference for the particular riding.

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his other point about communist is dead on though.

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I'd love to hear your attempt to defend this. But I'm growing tired of this forum... I'd find a smarter group of monkeys in BCIT's business classes.

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you type too much and over analyze the situation like we're in some sort of plato school of thoughts.

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Well, yes I clearly type too much for the folks on this forum. And yes, I did assume the people on the forum were semi-intelligent, and perhaps in some cases even educated. I clearly over-stepped. Some of them obviously don;t even conceive of what it means to be educated.

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people are busy.

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Being busy is one thing. If you're going to take your precious time and type unintelligent crap, then I see that as doing less good than typing semi-intelligent opinions, or perhaps even trying to learn something.

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i recommend http://www.mapleleafweb.com/forums/ .

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Cheers.

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i also recommend that you use a username without the word communist to avoid being categorized.

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Thanks for your opinion, but you are assuming that I don't want to be categorized. Better to identify the pigeon-holers early, in my opinion.