Mike Smyth: NDP and Greens stack the deck in referendum vote

It was a cringeworthy news conference at the legislature as a pair of MLAs  — one NDP and one Green — tried vainly to explain how their referendum to change B.C.’s voting system is not obviously stacked in their favour.
NDP MLA Bob D’Eith and Green MLA Sonia Furstenau announced a “working group” to “engage British Columbians  about democracy” in advance of the referendum next fall.
The referendum will ask whether B.C. should switch to a p