hey Pat, you weren’t on the off chance up at base Borden today were you? Saw someone outside the Canex up there that looked like you in all the Jays game pics Raymi posts, only less blasted.

I voted.
I wonder how many others that were in my polling station district did though….on my voter’s card it had the name of a school and address to vote at that I was not familiar with, in spite of living here in Hamilton for over 20 years now. I mapquested the address…no result. I googled it…an address about 10 km away from me came up…I thought, that can’t be right. I made a phone call to elections Canada, and was given another phone number, then routed to another phone number. Finally, after talking to several different people, I discovered where my polling station was: turns out they’d relocated a school that was at the original google address, and renamed it in an entirely new subdivision.
When I went to hunt it down and vote, there were no signs until you got to the new subdivision, which was not on a main intersection.
Finally I went in to vote after finding it. I asked the people at the poll station how many people had come to vote so far. It was 3 pm. They told me 28 people had thus far voted at that station. 28. In a city of over half a million, I find this pathetic. I told them about my difficulties in finding the voting station, and I will be letting my member of parliament know as well.
I’m sure others maybe not as politically um…rabid…as I am said ‘fuck it’ and didn’t bother. :(
And they wonder why everyone doesn’t vote.

I voted, i was lucky enough to be on the voters list when i got there as they neglected to send me my voters card..

I voted. I wasn’t going to, though. I couldn’t decide who to vote for because I didn’t like any of them. It was really weird.

I voted. I just had to decide first; Giant Douche or Turd Sandwich.

I am pleased with the votes, Ontario was on the ball.

Quoting Kevin:

I voted.
I wonder how many others that were in my polling station district did though….on my voter’s card it had the name of a school and address to vote at that I was not familiar with, in spite of living here in Hamilton for over 20 years now. I mapquested the address…no result. I googled it…an address about 10 km away from me came up…I thought, that can’t be right. I made a phone call to elections Canada, and was given another phone number, then routed to another phone number. Finally, after talking to several different people, I discovered where my polling station was: turns out they’d relocated a school that was at the original google address, and renamed it in an entirely new subdivision.
When I went to hunt it down and vote, there were no signs until you got to the new subdivision, which was not on a main intersection.
Finally I went in to vote after finding it. I asked the people at the poll station how many people had come to vote so far. It was 3 pm. They told me 28 people had thus far voted at that station. 28. In a city of over half a million, I find this pathetic. I told them about my difficulties in finding the voting station, and I will be letting my member of parliament know as well.
I’m sure others maybe not as politically um…rabid…as I am said ‘fuck it’ and didn’t bother. :(
And they wonder why everyone doesn’t vote.

I had the same fucking problem and it was raining. I used public transit to prove the poor or uneducated can vote. Guess what it’s a pain in the ass. How come I can’t vote form my desktop or telephone? I found my polling station and voted. Thank god fuck the PC Party.

This was more of a reminder than a post.

Aaron - was not at Borden- the Chuck E Cheeses of all CF bases.

P is shite. More than that is the lack of persons who understood the referndum. I had initially thought the online campaign to promote awareness was pretty good.

Though Dancing IN The Stars has Floyd Mayweather on it and we have to save some of our voting juices for that.

Whoever said the candidates seemed very close (McGuinty/Tory) I have to agree. Not close in policy so much as close in “i don’t like either that much”.

Zack - chicken burritto for you for the S.Park ref.

37% for MMP

Some people will go with, pardon the nickname, the devil they know over the devil they don’t. The people behind MMP did a horrible job of explaining what they were trying to do, which is probably why there weren’t a lot of votes for it. All the radio ads kept telling us was that “ooh, this is a difficult decision to make, so get informed.” But they didn’t inform us in any way.

I knew what it was because I went looking for the answers. Some people are too lazy to do that.

I voted. My candidate won. Does it make a difference? I don’t know.

Quoting C-Bacon:

37% for MMP. Pretty sad.

I bet the Red and Blue politicians are smiling.

37%???

that’s IT!?

how the hell is the rest of canada supposed to adopt a fairer voting system if if can’t get off the ground after a huge sponsorship scandal and equally hollow conservatives?

jesus…

and that story about not being able to find the voting station is typical. they do that to you on purpose so you WON’T find it. and therefore won’t vote in a manner they don’t like. if seeing it in the Bush elections wasn’t proof enough, I’ve seen a bit firsthand during the Liberal leadership race that they can get rather crafty with these things…

looks like the boat left us on this one again… how long are we gonna put up with having a vote that only means something 1 day every 4 years?

If Liberals or Conservatives get in ill scream.
I hate them SO MUCH
Dont you all remember how much PROMISES Liberals broke?????
What ever happened to not raising taxes?
Well didnt Maginty raise them ANYWAYS?
UGH
VOTE GREEN!
GET SOMEONE ELSE IN!
Were having enough problems with global warming anyways, were already fucking ourselves over by doing nothing about it right now, clearly.

YOUR VOTE DOESN’T COUNT…WE’VE ALREADY BOUGHT THE CANDIDATES!!!
-The Future is X-rated

Well we got a lot of great references coming from Carlin, S. Park and the future is z-rated…all the reason why matthewgood.org-nation is some of the most passionate and most knowledgeable and enthusiastic fans on the net.

Thanks for visiting. Thanks for the inspiring and excellent comments weighing in on the provincial elections. See you Saturday morning for a special post.

OK seriously, someone acknowledge that they have seen Bulworth. I can’t be the only one who is in love with this movie. It’s about a politician who has a life altering experience and decides to say fuck you to his campaign and supporters by speaking (GASP!) THE TRUTH about everything. Warren Beatty, Don Cheadle, Halle Berry. WATCH IT.