A University of B-C political scientist says the likelihood that adopting a proportional representation voting system will lead to extremists in the legislature has been overstated. Maxwell Cameron says that while some extremist parties have won seats in European countries that use the electoral system, they are usually shunned by other parties and don’t wield any significant power. He says parties like the far-right Swedish Democrats, which won the third highest number of seats in the Scandinavian country’s government, would likely hold some influence under any political system given that it won 18 per cent of the vote there. The mail-in ballots asks voters whether they would like to move to proportional representation or maintain the first-past-the-post voting system.