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[JimV]

Here’s an idea for electoral reform.  Each ballot has two columns, with all the candidates listed in each one.  In one column you vote “for” a candidate, in the other you vote “against” one.  An “against” vote cancels out a “for.”  In the final tally the candidate with the most “for” votes wins.

 

It would be deeply satisfying to be able to literally vote against someone, which is what most people actually want to do.  The main candidates would probably tend to cancel each other out, favouring third parties.  A drawback (shared by proportional rep systems), but perhaps no worse than the existing system where a majority of the voters generally hate the winning candidate.  And it would be fun :-)

[Victoria Watcher]

wouldn’t the incumbent almost always lose? voters would almost always vote their “against” for the sitting member.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 19 September 2021 - 06:39 AM.

[JimV]

wouldn’t the incumbent almost always lose? voters would almost always vote their “against” for the sitting member.

Yes, that’s the beauty of the system.

[Hotel Mike]

Hey Mike. My own door-knocking has had me in Fairfield, two parts of Oak Bay, UVic area. We had many teams of volunteer canvassers. Not every door can be knocked on, obviously, but I'm pretty sure Nikki's team has been to more doors than any other candidate. 

[LJ]

^I'm sure Nikki is a fine and worthy candidate, it's just she's a Liberal.

[A Girl is No one]

It’s not even just that she is a Liberal.. she’s a Liberal under Trudeau….

[Mike K.]

Hey Mike. My own door-knocking has had me in Fairfield, two parts of Oak Bay, UVic area. We had many teams of volunteer canvassers. Not every door can be knocked on, obviously, but I'm pretty sure Nikki's team has been to more doors than any other candidate.

Thanks!

It just feels like there’s less on-the-ground engagement this year. Nobody has dropped by out where I live in ESS, and mum has only had one visit, with other pamphlets dropped off via Canada Post and not volunteers.

[Mike K.]

Not a lot of positivity on Twitter on a post from Collins thanking Lore for her endorsement: https://twitter.com/...2854066177?s=21

One person called them the silent duo, which is one way to put it. Neither of the politicians have really addressed the crime and street issues in their respective ridings.

[Mike K.]

Bernie Sanders believes access to medication is our biggest problem. Mr. Sanders, we don’t even have access to doctors.

Canada goes to the polls Monday.

There's one party that stood up for working people in the pandemic.

One leader who has the courage to make the wealthy pay their fair share so everyone gets the medication they need.

That's why I support the @NDP and @theJagmeetSingh.

https://twitter.com/...2159593474?s=21

[Victoria Watcher]

we have 20% less doctors per capita than the USA:

 

https://en.wikipedia...r_of_physicians

 

but we visit 6.8 tmes per year:

 

https://www.statista...ita-by-country/

 

is the USA it's only 4x.

 

https://www.forbes.c...sh=48c83a10e347

 

our "free" medical system leads to abuse.  we should have user fees for those that can afford it, in order to curb superfluous use.

[Mike K.]

Maybe we’d visit less if we didn’t have to visit a doctor with only one issue per visit.

[A Girl is No one]

Bernie Sanders believes access to medication is our biggest problem. Mr. Sanders, we don’t even have access to doctors.

https://twitter.com/...2159593474?s=21

Dont tell him that! His whole career has been built on selling the Canadian health care system to Americans (which I still prefer over the American one- but maybe because I’ve never been sick!).

[todd]

 It’s election day!  

[todd]

[todd]

[Mike K.]

Dont tell him that! His whole career has been built on selling the Canadian health care system to Americans (which I still prefer over the American one- but maybe because I’ve never been sick!).

 

Also, very few Canadians that do not reside there for part of the year have ever experienced the US health care system, in any capacity, to have a sense of how they differ.

[Mike K.]

[Nparker]

...mum has only had one visit, with other pamphlets dropped off via Canada Post...

Had a ****load of election pamphlets shoved into my mailbox this week; 60% of which were from the Green Party. You gotta love the irony of that.

[todd]

Also, very few Canadians that do not reside there for part of the year have ever experienced the US health care system, in any capacity, to have a sense of how they differ.

They have different levels of care down there we only have one.

[Mike K.]

Jesus Christ.

 

Trudeau in blackface row (again)

https://www.spectato...face-row-again-