Elizabeth May Won🟢
Pierre Poilievre may lose his own seat!!
Lmao Jason Kenney is on the CBC panel? What’s the over/under on the number of cheeseburgers he eats on air tonight?
We’re good as long as he keeps the legendary gut covered up
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He’s got nothing on Ford. The guy was cracking fat jokes while signing a trade deal to score some cheap pizzas.
If you’d have told me even 4 months that there was a slight chance to beat PP, I’d have been ecstatic. I hope that his career (and the political feasibility of faschy candidates like him) implodes after tonight.
Currently losing his own riding. Jagmeet too, but both have few polls reporting.
I would find it amusing if the “Independent party” ended up taking Carleton (ie: more voters voted independent than PP).
[edit] Woohoo! Looks like Carleton is likely going to (LPC) Bruce Fanjoy despite the plethora of independents. PP loses his seat!
He’ll probably just replace a CPC somewhere else, but I’d love to see this as a signal that conservative Canadians don’t want populism or fascism.
That reminds me - what the heck is up with the candidates in Carlton? Who are all these independents?
There was an organized protest campaign run where a whole bunch of people ran in PP’s riding to bring visibility to the mishandling of electoral reform in Canada, specifically around ranked choice voting and proportional representation. Liberals ran on it in 2010 and then failed to do anything other than make a mess of moving away from first past the post .
First seat is claimed by a liberal 🔴
If we’re stupid enough to elect the conservatives, we can’t say anything to America about them electing Trump
An old family friend who is a staunch and loud and obnoxious conservative who only consumes right wing propaganda and has always voted for the conservative parties for his almost 80 years, has shocked me to my core by voting for Carney. Says he’s the right man for the job. This is an absolute sea change for this man. I think a lot of people really hate that little weasel PP and don’t stomach fascism in our country.
Pierre is losing his own riding with 4 polls reporting.
He lost! To a first time candidate we know almost nothing about LOL. I hope PP is having the vapours.
He’s decisively losing his riding with only 52 polls remaining.
Still not called, but down more than 3000 with very few left!
I donated, I emailed my candidate, I put out a sign, I talked to friends and family (they’re all voters anyway)
I didn’t volunteer because I just didn’t have time, but at least I’ve done everything I could.
Can’t wait for 85%+ of my province to vote to further worsen all of our lives and increase the cost of living. Thanks Alberta.
As much as I feel bad about Alberta getting ignored and shafted by the larger provinces, this is one of the few times I think they deserve it.
The damn guy so many Albertans are voting for is blatantly stating that he’s going to take away Canadian rights, funnel public money to the rich, remove services, casually lie about pretty much every subject, and countless other problematic things that are so obvious if you spend even five seconds thinking about it. And this is after successfully voting in a premier that is getting sued left and right for illegal practices and corruption, destroying their public services, and constantly fighting public inquiries by making them private or the results classified.
Albertans (especially rural Albertans) so consistently vote against their best interests in favour of giving their entire province to big oil that returns nothing (not even jobs) to the people living there that their leaders have stopped trying to hide just how terrible they are and are trying to see how much they can get away with while boasting about it out loud.
I know not all Albertans are this bad (hell, I’m Ontarian and we just voted in Ford, the second worst premier in the country for pretty much the same exact reasons), but whenever I see so much blue on a province, it’s hard not to get annoyed.
BTW, Saskatchewan is just as bad here, though maybe not the premier stuff.
I am one of the ~15% that will not make a difference, I hear you
Looks like we’re in the same boat… But aside from that, I’m also annoyed that the Liberals decided to run a candidate in my riding, which before was a clear NDP win. Now they’ve siphoned away voters from the NDP and might give the cons the win.
Edmonton centre? Yeah, the Liberals kinda dicked us over with that move.
Radio host this morning: “How many times did you vote?” (Specifically talking about this election, not in your life)
This is not even officially categorised as a trash radio…
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Why were there five, yes five poll workers at my polling station (which is just a small library) standing next to a sign and pointing in the same direction of the sign? Is that worth $28/h for 5 people of our tax dollars? Let’s do the math.
Polls are open for 12 hours.
28 x 5 = 140 140 x 12 = 1680
According to elections Canada there are roughly 20 000 polling stations in Canada (Source: https://electionsanddemocracy.ca/canadas-elections/canadas-election-process/elections-step-step)
1680 x 20 000 = 33 600 000
Being conservative and assuming each polling station has the same amount of poll workers, it’s costing us $33.6 Million dollars for people to do the job of a literal lamp post.
When I went to vote on Good Friday the lines were very long and the poll workers were all very busy. This is why people hate conservatives, because you don’t value other people at all.
Where did you get the $28/h figure? Since Elections Canada website list the poll worker pay:
Deputy returning officer - $20.01 / h
Information officer - $20.01 / h
Registration officer - $20.01 / h
Central poll officer - $26.46 / h
But can you imagine how much it would cost if we didn’t do that and we had to prove over and over again the the WHINING, PISSING, MOANING that ceaselessly follows a conservative defeat that our elections are legitimate and fair, and it’s their ideas that are repugnant?
Keep in mind that you only saw one brief snapshot of their day; you may have witnessed only a brief moment where all five were there together and that it’s not indicative of their entire day
How busy was it when you went?
It’s a good idea to have extra staff available. Advanced polls already set records for the number of voters, and the day is just getting started.
Not sure in your riding, but usually, they have different roles and experience level.
One important task is to keep everyone in check. If you reduce that number, the risks of different problems increases. Most recently this
There is a lot of propaganda around the world to discredit elections (usually by authoritarian regimes), so I do not think anyone will take the risk of reducing the number of poll workers.
Elections Canada describes all the roles and processes, from hiring, training, what to do before, during and after the voting day if you are interested in details. https://www.elections.ca/home.aspx
Sadly, we are a bit behind in technology and the costs can persist with electronic voting.
With in-person voting, either we do like Belgium with printing votes (I read people calling it “expensive pen”), or with air-gapped dedicated computers like in South America (the only thing that leaves is one of the storages and a printed sheet with the result of that location). There are the initial investment and we will still need the election workers.
On the other hand, with internet/remote voting, the initial investment in tech, security, and change management will be huge in our current state. You can reduce the numbers of workers with that, but now you will need more expensive people at every step to ensure a fair election.
Countries that uses any kind of electronic voting claim that it improved their elections considerably, including costs, but the upfront cost and the change in culture can scary some people.
(edit: fix typo)
