The best possible candidate won this, the one that will keep the NDP out.
I wouldn't count on it.
Posted 27 February 2011 - 01:24 PM
The best possible candidate won this, the one that will keep the NDP out.
Posted 27 February 2011 - 01:50 PM
I wouldn't count on it.
Posted 27 February 2011 - 02:47 PM
How she handles the HST will decide if she keeps the NDP outThe best possible candidate won this, the one that will keep the NDP out.
Posted 27 February 2011 - 02:56 PM
How she handles the HST will decide if she keeps the NDP out
Posted 27 February 2011 - 03:57 PM
I think she might call an election, along with a binding HST vote at the same poll. That would be smart.
Posted 27 February 2011 - 04:01 PM
The reason why fixed election dates were legislated into law was to avoid this type of opportunism in calling elections. I don't think that she will gain too many supporters overturning the law and going back to the old system.
Having said that, her biggest challenge if she waits 26 months until the next election will be demonstrating that she actually did anything!
Posted 27 February 2011 - 04:50 PM
The reason why fixed election dates were legislated into law was to avoid this type of opportunism in calling elections. I don't think that she will gain too many supporters overturning the law and going back to the old system.
Having said that, her biggest challenge if she waits 26 months until the next election will be demonstrating that she actually did anything!
Posted 27 February 2011 - 06:54 PM
Posted 27 February 2011 - 07:01 PM
The HST is a federal tax. Provinces don't have the option of removing products or services at will.
Posted 27 February 2011 - 07:06 PM
The HST is a federal tax. Provinces don't have the option of removing products or services at will.
Posted 01 March 2011 - 07:45 AM
Posted 01 March 2011 - 08:32 AM
Posted 01 March 2011 - 09:50 AM
Only one country has adopted internet voting for general elections - Estonia. It is working very well for them, but then they are the most technologically advanced society around and not a backward place like BC.
For comparison, Estonia is about the same size as Vancouver Island and has a population of 1,340,000 versus 750,000 for the island.
Posted 01 March 2011 - 02:32 PM
Posted 01 March 2011 - 05:29 PM
Fraud can happen in our current system, I can swear in a dozen people to vote with whatever name we would like to use. These people could all have voted already in a different polling station.
Frankly, it is much easier to mess with our current system than you could with the sort of system they use in Estonia.
Posted 01 March 2011 - 06:18 PM
Hey they cross reference those voter lists ya know!
While you can swear in a dozen people in a day, a computer system can generate thousands of fraudulent votes in a fraction of a second.
Posted 06 March 2011 - 04:34 PM
Posted 07 March 2011 - 08:49 AM
Re: internet voting / PIN mailout - The expense of mailouts is considerable. I heard that production and postage for Campbell's first cheque mailout cost considerably more than the cheques themselves. And numerous cheques went to people who were deceased or left the province.
Electronic options lose the human element. That is important, to me at least.
Posted 07 March 2011 - 08:57 AM
Posted 07 March 2011 - 09:47 AM
^ Perhaps they are factoring in the manpower that it takes to decide who gets a cheque and for how much. It could have been a little like the gun registry.
Somebody had to program the computer to decide not to mail me a cheque.
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