A Comox man has been fined one-thousand dollars by Elections B-C for failing to register as a third-party advertiser during the referendum on electoral reform. Elections B-C says Kevin Anderson paid one thousand and 29 dollars to publish a full-page ad in his local paper supporting the first-past-the-post system and opposing proportional representation. The body that administers elections and initiatives says in a letter to Anderson that he didn’t co-operate with Elections B-C’s request to voluntarily register as an advertising sponsor and then avoided communication on the matter. The letter says there was no indication Anderson attempted to deliberately contravene the legislation and it fixed the penalty at one-thousand dollars, below the baseline recommendation for a first such offence of 25-hundred dollars.
