Should Canada have Mandatory Voting

SLM

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Mar 5, 2011
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Jinentonix

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If only these non-voters could see, in some other countries that some people.risked their lives, or will stand in line for hours under the hot sun,just so they could exercise their right to vote. I suppose for some, no matter what, they couldn't be bothered.
Yeah, and more often than not in those counties, it's a pre-arranged outcome. Khazakstan's last "free" election was a doozy. The winner, by unanimous vote, was announced the day before the actual vote even took place.


Spoiling your ballot is a perfectly acceptable choice. It shows a personal vote of no confidence in any of the candidates instead of waiting for a bunch of sore losers in Parliament to make that choice for you. Not for our benefit obviously but for their own personal gains.
 

MHz

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How about it has to be like a jury call, all agree or it goes nowhere.

I'll make an addition to my last idea. Rather than 'undecided' have one for 'voted my own way' and you have a voting number that is connected to Revenue Canada that shows you have read a certain amount on a subject before it is passed and the voters could all vote the opposite to their elected member and it would be their 'collective vote via referendum' that would pass or defeat the proposed bill.

For example, when hemp was made legal a decade ago the same amount of money was pumped into a 'budding' industry as there was with PetroCan today the ditches could be sowed and harvested and because it would be a 'wild weed', you could pick certain plants that had the qualities you wanted (tall and few branches for hemp, 'get high' would be the smallest plants at harvest time)
Work with hemp all year year after year a small hole in a glove would keep you a bit buzzed the whole time. (that's my story and I'm sticking to it) (insert chip from Super Troopers)