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[Mike K.]

Please mark your choices for Victoria City Mayor and Council.  You may only vote in this poll once.

 

Note: votes are not displayed publicly, however, moderators will be monitoring to ensure nobody votes for more than the allotted 8 council candidates.

 

Please use the 2014 Municipal Elections general discussion thread for discussion on the elections. Please feel free to identify your selected candidates in this thread.

 

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[Mr Cook Street]

Andrew Reeve is an early favourite!

[Mike K.]

It's really too bad the system does not allow guests to vote

[Bingo]

It's really too bad the system does not allow guests to vote

 

Guests can become members just to vote,     and then they can disappear into the background just like many others on the forum.

[John M.]

It would also be cool if ordered the eight candidates to the top; I'm to lazy to figure out the top eight every time I check

[sebberry]

It would also be cool if ordered the eight candidates to the top; I'm to lazy to figure out the top eight every time I check

 

Unfortunately that is not a feature of the poll system.

 

Oh, and I want to put it out there that if any member wishes to explain why they voted the way they did but wants to do so confidentially, feel free to PM me with your reasoning and I will post it anonymously. 

[gumgum]

Any memory of how accurate the VV poll was the last election?

[sebberry]

Any memory of how accurate the VV poll was the last election?

 

Yep, here's the old poll.  http://vibrantvictor...d-830pm-nov-15/

 

 

ELECTED: VV Votes:
[Mayor] Fortin 125
Alto  102
Young  100
Madoff  92
Helps  91
Coleman  75
Thornton-Joe 75
Gudgeon  65
Isitt  63
 
NOT ELECTED: VV Votes:
Aaron Hall 97
Robin Kimpton 96
John Luton 96
Lynn Hunter 81
Sukhi Lalli 63
Linda McGrew 63
Phillipe Lucas 62
Rose Henry 38
Saul Andersen 14
John C Turner 13
Jon Valentine 7
Sean Murray 5
 
[Mayor] Paul Brown 131
[Mayor] Steve Filipovic 16
[Mayor] David Shebib 4
 

[tedward]

So, our track record is pretty bad.

[Bingo]

So, our track record is pretty bad.

 

Oh I don't know...Luton, Hunter and Lucas were councillors from the bridge referendum vote/election that were now out of office.

[tedward]

I was referring to our abilities to predict actual results which, based on a super-small sample, is not good.

 

I wonder if we will do better this time?

[AndrewReeve]

So, our track record is pretty bad.

 

Looking at where I stand in the VV poll, here's hoping it's more accurate this year 

Edited by AndrewReeve, 30 October 2014 - 02:57 PM.

[dasmo]

Don't take it personal Ben. You got a crap load of votes in the real world. Even if I don't like your general position and perspective (or my idea of what that is) I respect you as a politician. Your vote count for one but I also see you about in our city. You were the only candidate that came to my door. Plus your comment above are examples as to why you will have success. I might have voted for you as a left balance candidate if I wasn't on my no mercy campaign....

[spanky123]

 

The gap between the "straw poll" in this thread and public opinion in the City of Victoria is fascinating.

 

 

Ben

 

Ben Isitt

Victoria City Councillor and CRD Director

Email. Ben@Isitt.ca / Tel. 250.882.9302

Web. www.BenIsitt.ca

 

 

I think that contributors to VV on average have a higher level of education then the general public :-)

 

Seriously, my experience has been that the people who vote in municipal elections are usually the ones who are issues driven and the overall vote does not necessarily represent a true cross section of the populace.

Edited by spanky123, 12 December 2014 - 01:17 PM.

[rjag]

^ Methinks the folks on here are a tad more engaged than the average voter and are less likely to vote for name recognition and more likely for past performance and personal stance.

 

i.e. providing solutions to non-existent problems such as unenforceable new speed limits when all the in-house professionals indicate its unnecessary supported by VicPD smacks of someone more interested in social engineering than actually "what's good for our region"....just saying....

[Nparker]

^ Methinks the folks on here are a tad more engaged than the average voter and are less likely to vote for name recognition and more likely for past performance and personal stance...

This.