When exactly were voters told about a required threshold ? This seems to indicate they weren ' t . As well , he said MacLauchlan didn ' t include voting thresholds that would have required the government to act , leaving the impression that the government wasn ' t interested in change . Voters shrugged their shoulders and said , ' They ' re not interested in reform , therefore I ' m not going to participate , Desserud said . If they had made it clear what the thresholds would be , that would have been more of a motivation to get people out to vote The premier said thresholds were never an option because they were rejected as a form of interference during an electoral reform plebiscite in 2005 , in which 36 per cent of eligible voters rejected change by a 64 per cent margin . v o t e r s s u p p o r t s w i t c h t o p r o p o r t i o n a l r e p r e s e n t a t ioninnonbindingplebiscite . html