Opinion

Editor: Why vote yes to keep our present simple to understand and easy to use existing electoral system First Past the Post - a voting system that guarantees us the election of an accountable local Powell River- Sunshine Coast MLA representative.

Editor: I would like to apologize to the citizens of the Sunshine Coast for any mayhem I may have caused while I lived there. I was a drug addict for more than 30 years and I am now clean and free of all drugs, including powerful prescription drugs.

Editor: A vote for STV is not a vote for computerized voting. Ballots can be cast and counted by hand just as they are now. The total number of first choice, second choice, third choice...

The following letter was sent to MP John Weston and copied to Coast Reporter Dear Mr.

Editor: Debating the upcoming STV referendum has generated a lot of fear-mongering anddyspepsia throughoutour region.

The following letter was sent to MLA Nicholas Simons and copied to Coast Reporter Dear Mr.

Editor: Three important reasons to vote for the Single Transferable Vote (BC-STV) are as follows. First, the B.C. government vacillates between two parties, the NDP and the Liberals with resultant extreme changes in policy.

Imagine the next election. You step up to make your mark. The ballot contains 19 names, two of who come from our area, the rest are merely names on a piece of paper. "Drivel," say the pro-STV camp.

Editor: I would like to thank Paul Martiquet and the Health Officers Council of B.C. for their initiative to create a public discussion addressing the issue of prohibition.

Editor: The poet T S Eliot once defined life as "one long purification of motive." As members of the Clean Air Society we are concerned with "our one long struggle to restore the purity of the air we breathe.