American votes in Canadian elections

[jimmoyer]

The guy did the job your own parliament should do.
The guy did the job any one of your citizens should do.

Go ahead. Prosecute.

The next step is nothing.

Because that's what's gonna happen.

Nothing.

Don't change a thing.

Just like the States.

Very little change or introspection in the
mechanics of elections is happening.

 

[FiveParadox]

I was not saying that Elections Canada should not strengthen its protocols and procedures — you are putting words in my mouth, and painting me as some irresponsible good-for-nothing.

Notwithstanding whether or not he brought "red flag" issues to the forefront, the fact remains that he voted, and had his vote counted, without being authorized to do so, violating the Canada Elections Act — he does not have the right to do so.

 

[jimmoyer]

My apologies, FiveParadox.

We had some guy on his own check out airport security.
We saw the same public outcry to put the guy in jail.

Both the guy who exposed a weakness in your
election procedures and our airport security
did one thing : They publicized their action.

It's always this kind of guy that does so much
better exposing the myths of comfort we have.

Rarely do you ever see paid government workers do
this. And if they do, they get to watch the upper
echelons do little about it.

 

[tawker]

RE: American votes in Can

Our registration system is a total joke, our voting system is antiquated.

I have no problems with a voter checkable electronic voting machine. If it can be tracked, it's fine and it might speed things up a bit having an digital record at the polling station.

 

[FiveParadox]

Our voting system gets us results quite quickly, in my opinion; less than a few hours after the stations have been closed, we know what our next Parliament of Canada is going to look like.

 

[tawker]

RE: American votes in Can

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Don't forget the (very very easy to defeat) gag laws that prevent us from getting results in BC seconds after they come out.

The scary thing was, the CBC was broadcasting results online during the election and it wasn't hard to find on the blog-o-sphere (and those commenters who kept posting results on my blog, argh - totally ironic, the CBC posts a link saying that I said I was going to comply then posts a link with the comments page that users posted results on. Oh well, I made a couple bucks off adsense so it was ok.


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