cybercoma Posted October 20, 2015 Report Posted October 20, 2015 (edited) Let's see how the forum voted. Edited October 20, 2015 by cybercoma Quote
cybercoma Posted October 20, 2015 Author Report Posted October 20, 2015 (edited) And apparently I can't create polls......what the deuce?Edit: Apparently you can't use accents in the response choices or it crashes. Edited October 20, 2015 by cybercoma Quote
-1=e^ipi Posted October 20, 2015 Report Posted October 20, 2015 Where is the 'spoiled my ballot because all the options suck' option? Quote
ToadBrother Posted October 20, 2015 Report Posted October 20, 2015 Where is the 'spoiled my ballot because all the options suck' option? Well, there isn't an option, because spoiling your ballot is just a rather ambitious way of not voting at all. Quote
-1=e^ipi Posted October 20, 2015 Report Posted October 20, 2015 Well, there isn't an option, because spoiling your ballot is just a rather ambitious way of not voting at all. Lies. Anyway, there should also be an option for declining your ballot. Quote
ToadBrother Posted October 20, 2015 Report Posted October 20, 2015 Lies. A spoiled ballot doesn't count for anything except the spoiled ballot count. I know you thought you were sending a statement, but you ended up in the same pile as ballots with printing errors. Anyway, there should also be an option for declining your ballot. One form of electoral reform I would support is a "none of the above" box. If the plurality goes to "none of the above", then the election in that riding has to be re-run with an entirely new slate of candidates. Quote
Smeelious Posted October 20, 2015 Report Posted October 20, 2015 A spoiled ballot doesn't count for anything except the spoiled ballot count. I know you thought you were sending a statement, but you ended up in the same pile as ballots with printing errors. One form of electoral reform I would support is a "none of the above" box. If the plurality goes to "none of the above", then the election in that riding has to be re-run with an entirely new slate of candidates. Actually I like this. Quote
Smeelious Posted October 20, 2015 Report Posted October 20, 2015 I kinda feel like there should be a "Did your vote actually Elect a Candidate" poll as well... Quote
-1=e^ipi Posted October 20, 2015 Report Posted October 20, 2015 A spoiled ballot doesn't count for anything except the spoiled ballot count. A vote for the green party, libertarian party, communist party, etc. won't get them elected so won't count for anything. A vote in a safe riding won't count for anything. A vote for not one of the top two candidates in swing riding won't count for anything. So what? Better than endorsing the idiotic options available to me. Quote
cybercoma Posted October 20, 2015 Author Report Posted October 20, 2015 Lies. Anyway, there should also be an option for declining your ballot. There is an option for that: "I didn't vote." Quote
-1=e^ipi Posted October 20, 2015 Report Posted October 20, 2015 There is an option for that: "I didn't vote." But I did vote... Quote
ToadBrother Posted October 20, 2015 Report Posted October 20, 2015 But I did vote... Only in the sense that you showed up at the polling station and got a ballot. You're ballot didn't count for anything other than a spoiled ballot. You may think it was an act of defiance, but you ended up in the same pile with defective ballots. Quote
Bonam Posted October 20, 2015 Report Posted October 20, 2015 But I did vote... You can believe that but you no more voted than had you stayed at home. Quote
cybercoma Posted October 20, 2015 Author Report Posted October 20, 2015 But I did vote... For who? Quote
-1=e^ipi Posted October 20, 2015 Report Posted October 20, 2015 You can believe that but you no more voted than had you stayed at home. That's not true. Rejected ballots are kept track of. Staying home would be 1 less rejected ballot. For who? For none of the above. Quote
ToadBrother Posted October 20, 2015 Report Posted October 20, 2015 That's not true. Rejected ballots are kept track of. Staying home would be 1 less rejected ballot. They're kept track of. But the nature of the spoiling is not. If it was a misprint and the voter requested another ballot, that original ballot is counted as spoiled as wel. For none of the above. Except that means nothing. Quote
Smallc Posted October 20, 2015 Report Posted October 20, 2015 They're kept track of. But the nature of the spoiling is not. If it was a misprint and the voter requested another ballot, that original ballot is counted as spoiled as wel. To be technical, spoiled ballots (misprints or any that didn't make it into the box) are counted separately than rejected ballots. Quote
Evening Star Posted October 20, 2015 Report Posted October 20, 2015 To be technical, spoiled ballots (misprints or any that didn't make it into the box) are counted separately than rejected ballots. Yeah, that's not just a technical point. I've been a DRO and there is a difference between these things. Declined ballots are counted and they do mean something, probably as much as one extra vote for the Liberals in Ottawa-Vanier counts for something. Quote
angrypenguin Posted October 20, 2015 Report Posted October 20, 2015 This board is a lot more diverse than I thought. Quote My views are my own and not those of my employer.
The_Squid Posted October 20, 2015 Report Posted October 20, 2015 The results of the MLW poll so far should be how this site is governed... An NDP/Green coalition running the forum!! Quote
cybercoma Posted October 20, 2015 Author Report Posted October 20, 2015 There's no "none of the above" on the ballot Quote
PrimeNumber Posted October 20, 2015 Report Posted October 20, 2015 One form of electoral reform I would support is a "none of the above" box. If the plurality goes to "none of the above", then the election in that riding has to be re-run with an entirely new slate of candidates. I'd support this actually. Quote “Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find your way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”― Bruce Lee
overthere Posted October 20, 2015 Report Posted October 20, 2015 I am the Independent vote. I would have voted for a mainstream party candidate, as I usually do, but the guy was just so incredibly creepy it was not going to happen. Quote Science too hard for you? Try religion!
Smeelious Posted October 21, 2015 Report Posted October 21, 2015 I am the Independent vote. I would have voted for a mainstream party candidate, as I usually do, but the guy was just so incredibly creepy it was not going to happen. He was soo creepy you had to vote for him...I understand. It happens to everyone. Quote
DFCaper Posted October 21, 2015 Report Posted October 21, 2015 You can believe that but you no more voted than had you stayed at home. I could not disagree more. I always feel that when they strike my name off the list, that my demographic had a vote. All parties suck up to voting demographics. Old people vote in heavy numbers, so most of the polices of all parties are geared towards them. Look how no one would ever suggest eliminating income splitting for them... I voted against the party in power to what I feel is a limit for any government not to be super corrupt, and against the Party that sounded too much like Wynne. The NDP voted against C51 as well. Quote "Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it" - Hellen Keller "Success is not measured by the heights one attains, but by the obstacles one overcomes in its attainment" - Booker T. Washington
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