Vote YES Yukon in the Yukon News
Vote YES Yukon is in today’s Yukon News. You can read the full article here.
Photo credit Dana Hatherly / Yukon News
From the article:
Sean Boots’ family welcomed their second child into their home. Days later, he received his first shipment of lawn signs on electoral reform.
Boots started the Vote Yes campaign to get the word out to Yukoners about the plebiscite ballot before electors go to cast their votes in the 2025 territorial elections.
Boots has launched a website, bulk ordered lawn signs and made up posters to inform voters and promote his message.
“My wife has been very patient with me having an either well timed or poorly timed hobby, depending on how you put it, to also promote electoral reform as we’re welcoming a new kiddo into our house,” Boots told the News at the newsroom on Oct. 17.
“A friend joked when the lawn signs arrived on Monday that our other baby arrived.”
The campaign driven by Boots is encouraging Yukoners to choose yes, the territory should move to a ranked-voting system.
Boots compared the concept of first past the post to daylight savings time changes.
He grew up in Saskatchewan which, like the Yukon, doesn’t change the clocks for daylight savings time, unlike most places in Canada.
“Once we stop using it, everyone will be like, ‘thank goodness. This new system is so much better’,” he said.
“Provinces across Canada have talked about getting rid of daylight savings time changes forever, but only the Yukon actually did it. And I think that’s something that’s really cool about the territory, is that you can actually go for stuff.”