Canada

Now her royal highness HRC has weighed in for her good friend Justin, and Bernie has endorsed the more progressive candidate. IIRC Obama also endorsed Macron during France’s elections.  No wonder the US has become such a shithole country: Always sticking its nose in other people’s business instead of fixing its own problems.

Bernie Sanders,…[Read more]

I remember local elections in Texas where ballots were much as you described. They also had voting machines in some elections, where you went into a booth, closed the curtain, and then pulled levers. You could even go back and change your vote before you pulled the big lever which submitted the tally. Not as good as your system, but better than…[Read more]

It was election day. They went down the street to vote. I tagged along.

It surprised me that they were voting the old fashioned way — pencil and paper then placing it in a box. We went back to the polls later to see the results. Like you said, they counted the votes manually, by hand.

As the US elections became more computer high-tech, the more…[Read more]

Yes, it truly is a wonderful system, and Elections Canada has recently stated they have no plans to change it.

I was a poll observer 2 elections past, and I was pretty impressed by how well run it was. It was in a large riding, and this polling station served more people than most (or so I was told). When you come in, you show the voting card…[Read more]

Are they hand-counted, too? We don’t have that in the States. Everything is scanned electronically at some step in the process, and any electronic scanner or tabulator can be tampered with. That is why I have no faith in the integrity of American elections.

Seriously. The guy creeps me out.

As for voting, my partner and I did it last Saturday at 8:30 pm. Walked over to the Finnish Agricultural Church down the block, was checked in by the old guy with the thick accent, handed a ballot by the middle-aged extremely blonde woman with an accent, and enjoyed a few minutes of laughter at my expense because…[Read more]

You damned well should strongly object to Barack Obama for telling you how to vote. If anything, it should persuade you to vote for someone other than Trudeau.

is going to be nauseous this year. I think I fell for the fear mongering once back in the early 90’s, but never again since. People who complain about the same 2 parties running the country the same way, but cave in to strategic voting become self fulfilling prophecies of why their party never wins.

Freeland has been eying that job since day 1 of…[Read more]

Wow. Just when I thought she couldn’t get any worse. I joined the party last year to vote for a new leader, and the other day I had the distinct pleasure of telling a phone banker that I was not renewing my membership because the party has turned into a joke.

Sadly, with the liberals losing ground, I’m again seeing the “don’t split the vote”…[Read more]

I’ve actually lost a few friendships over the last 5 years because of my intolerance of Liberal attitudes. As one of my more radical friends once said, those snooty butter-won’t-melt-in-my-mouth Liberal lunch ladies make me want to puke. My own disgust really came to a boil with the JWR incident. I’ll admit, I was pretty shocked how far some…[Read more]

of malfeasance perpetrated by the Liberal party and it’s individual MP’s. I think JWR will safely be re-elected as an Independent and rightly so, but I fear the rest of Canada will have short memories, or be fear-mongered into voting for these assholes again.

I hope I don’t offend anyone with this comment, but Carolyn Bennett is and always has been a privileged, patronizing, hypocritical cunt. In other words, a pretty typical white Canadian Liberal. (For the record, she was very briefly my GP in the 80s.)

Interesting story, glad to hear of it.
“It was extremely stupid and should have led to Zatzman’s immediate removal. Instead, Paul sought to ride out the kerfuffle. But Green activists refused to let the smear and threat slide. They mobilized online and my article “Crazed anti-Palestinian Green adviser must be removed” was widely read and share…[Read more]