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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCanada just held an election with paper ballots with results on 11 pm news
Full disclosure: I've worked for Elections Canada and as a campaign worker for two Parties.
Length of campaign-5 weeks.
Polls close at 7 pm unless there's a line. CBC called it at 830 my time. Concession speeches started around 1015.
Procedure:
-got a thing in the mail saying where I was supposed to vote
-got campaign literature in mailbox
-campaign worker showed up asking if they could plant sign (yes)
-day of election my wife was able to drive her handicapped scooter to the poll to vote. Polls are within blocks of each other.
-a campaign worker showed up at the door offering to drive me but I made my own way
-I showed up, but had forgotten my little card so they found me on the master paper copy of the list
-I showed drivers' licence for ID (thete are other methods)
-I was given a paper ballot, instructed on how to use it and sent to a cardboard booth to vote
-brought ballot back (folded), they tore off a strip with their tracking number on it and I put it in the cardboard voting box
Went to work and turned on the radio.
Liberal Party Leader Trudeau fancies himself a techronat infamously lecturing on Quantum Computing
Conservative party leader O'Toole ran a crappy campaign. In his concession speech he went off on a rant about clean water.
NDP Leader Singhe ran a good campaign and appears to have picked up a couple of seats including my riding.
People's Party made no inroads but doubled their popularity and messed up some Conservative ridings
The Greens lost seats due to incompetence.
Although we had both Communist and Marxist/Leninist candidates running, nothing much happened there.
Canadian politics is weird.
Tomorrow I'm off to pull down campaign signs
applegrove
(118,021 posts)party you like to win that riding. We don't vote on judges or Presidents or any other issue. American ballots are way more complicated.
patricia92243
(12,590 posts)Celerity
(42,666 posts)applegrove
(118,021 posts)is simply an elected local candidate of the party that elected the most local candidates and had chosen him as leader. I voted for Mona Fortier not Justin Trudeau put an x beside her name. I knew it would help Justin Trudeau become PM though..
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)I was happy to vote Liberal this year. The Liberal Candidate in my riding is Anita Anand.
Sid
questionseverything
(9,631 posts)As late long as hand counts were available if close
madaboutharry
(40,152 posts)Canada = 37 million
United States = 328 million
That is a big difference in ballots to count.
Yay for paper ballots!
Also, I dont think one of the major political parties in Canada actively works at undermining democracy.
questionseverything
(9,631 posts)Crunchy Frog
(26,548 posts)I envy you.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)Roisin Ni Fiachra
(2,574 posts)It's so totally un-American!
Well done, Canada!
malaise
(267,823 posts)Election campaigning in the US starts the day after an election. It is ridiculous - but the M$Greedia love it and so do the oligarchs
TrogL
(32,818 posts)SidDithers
(44,228 posts)I didn't mind the snap election call from Trudeau.
At some point his minority government was going to fall. Better to shut it down on his terms than with a non-confidence vote.
And I'm happy with another minority. That should give us at least a couple more years of sane government. Nobody will have the stomach to bring down the government too quickly.
If Jagmeet Singh can get over himself, then he could push the Liberals left to get some of his priorities enacted.
But the Liberal win ensures $10-a-day daycare lives on, that national healthcare remains un-privatized, that it's still illegal to own assault style firearms in Canada, and that a woman still has the right to make her own medical decisions. Those are all things the NDP should support.
I'm OK with this.
Sid