Editorial: Low early return of electoral-reform ballots a concern

Elections B.C. reports that there are 3,291,297 registered voters in B.C., every one of whom has been sent a ballot in the 2018 referendum on electoral reform. As of Thursday, guess how many ballots had been returned.
Elections B.C. had received just 86,907 ballots — a mere 2.6 per cent of the total. That seems worryingly low, given that we are nearly three weeks into the referendum and the prevailing wisdom is that a large volume of ballots are returned at the start of voti