Comments on: You can peek at my ballot http://www.knitnut.net/2008/10/you-can-peek-at-my-ballot/ Watch my life unravel... Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:38:00 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Rumi Lover http://www.knitnut.net/2008/10/you-can-peek-at-my-ballot/#comment-41377 Rumi Lover Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:39:00 +0000 http://knitnut.net/?p=815#comment-41377 Please check this out: Liberals (and others) Opposed to Stephane Dion's Removal as Leader at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=40161095228 Please check this out: Liberals (and others) Opposed to Stephane Dion’s Removal as Leader at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=40161095228

]]> By: justmakingitup http://www.knitnut.net/2008/10/you-can-peek-at-my-ballot/#comment-41228 justmakingitup Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:13:31 +0000 http://knitnut.net/?p=815#comment-41228 If I'd been in your riding, I'd have had a much easier time voting. In my case it was: go with my heart, or go with the best hope to get a tory out. I literally stood in the ballot booth and stared at the ballet. Then I asked my 9-year-old which one to vote for, and put the X where he said. Didn't matter. The tory got in. And that was on my second visit, since I too was tossed out for insufficient ID. I remember thinking, in the good old days anyone could just say they were me. If I’d been in your riding, I’d have had a much easier time voting. In my case it was: go with my heart, or go with the best hope to get a tory out. I literally stood in the ballot booth and stared at the ballet. Then I asked my 9-year-old which one to vote for, and put the X where he said. Didn’t matter. The tory got in.

And that was on my second visit, since I too was tossed out for insufficient ID. I remember thinking, in the good old days anyone could just say they were me.

]]> By: Gabriel... http://www.knitnut.net/2008/10/you-can-peek-at-my-ballot/#comment-41215 Gabriel... Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:00:47 +0000 http://knitnut.net/?p=815#comment-41215 Bringing a recording device into a polling station is against the Elections Canada Act... at least that's what the signs at my polling station said. From what I can find it's not about the ballot per se, but about the invasion of other voters privacy. I don't know what the penalty would be because I can't find the provisions in the actual Act. All that said, I took one of mine as well: http://culturalsnafu.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/59-percent/ Bringing a recording device into a polling station is against the Elections Canada Act… at least that’s what the signs at my polling station said. From what I can find it’s not about the ballot per se, but about the invasion of other voters privacy. I don’t know what the penalty would be because I can’t find the provisions in the actual Act.

All that said, I took one of mine as well:
http://culturalsnafu.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/59-percent/

]]> By: TomTrottier http://www.knitnut.net/2008/10/you-can-peek-at-my-ballot/#comment-41179 TomTrottier Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:31:54 +0000 http://knitnut.net/?p=815#comment-41179 I think showing your completed ballot to anyone may be against the law.... I think showing your completed ballot to anyone may be against the law….

]]> By: zoom! http://www.knitnut.net/2008/10/you-can-peek-at-my-ballot/#comment-41162 zoom! Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:12:28 +0000 http://knitnut.net/?p=815#comment-41162 Milan, I'm in the same riding as you and was tempted to vote Green since I thought the NDP was safe here. But then I worried that if we all did that, the NDP wouldn't get in! Jo - yay! Heather - apparently voter turnout was the lowest ever. I wonder if the new ID requirements had anything to do with that. Gabriel - I've lived in three CCOC apartments, for a total of 9 years. They're the best landlords in Ottawa, in my humble opinion. Leanne - yay again! Milan, I’m in the same riding as you and was tempted to vote Green since I thought the NDP was safe here. But then I worried that if we all did that, the NDP wouldn’t get in!

Jo – yay!

Heather – apparently voter turnout was the lowest ever. I wonder if the new ID requirements had anything to do with that.

Gabriel – I’ve lived in three CCOC apartments, for a total of 9 years. They’re the best landlords in Ottawa, in my humble opinion.

Leanne – yay again!

]]> By: Leanne http://www.knitnut.net/2008/10/you-can-peek-at-my-ballot/#comment-41151 Leanne Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:18:36 +0000 http://knitnut.net/?p=815#comment-41151 Your ballot looks like my ballot, too. :-) Your ballot looks like my ballot, too. :-)

]]> By: Gabriel... http://www.knitnut.net/2008/10/you-can-peek-at-my-ballot/#comment-41137 Gabriel... Wed, 15 Oct 2008 03:45:39 +0000 http://knitnut.net/?p=815#comment-41137 I rented a room once from the CCOC... I rented a room once from the CCOC…

]]> By: Heather G. http://www.knitnut.net/2008/10/you-can-peek-at-my-ballot/#comment-41126 Heather G. Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:48:43 +0000 http://knitnut.net/?p=815#comment-41126 You don't have to have photo id, it is just perferred. I checked the Elections Canada website for some folks at work who were blaming their old style health cards and lack of driver's licenses for not voting, and apparently you can bring id with your name on it (old health card, SIN card, etc) and no photo as long as you also bring an official bill with your address (bank statement, credit card statement, utility bill). Even when I was 18 I could scare up those items! Worse come to worse, you can have someone vouch for you, but they should do everything they can to make sure you are not disenfranchised! At least, that is what they told me when I worked at the polls last year. You don’t have to have photo id, it is just perferred. I checked the Elections Canada website for some folks at work who were blaming their old style health cards and lack of driver’s licenses for not voting, and apparently you can bring id with your name on it (old health card, SIN card, etc) and no photo as long as you also bring an official bill with your address (bank statement, credit card statement, utility bill). Even when I was 18 I could scare up those items!

Worse come to worse, you can have someone vouch for you, but they should do everything they can to make sure you are not disenfranchised! At least, that is what they told me when I worked at the polls last year.

]]> By: Jo http://www.knitnut.net/2008/10/you-can-peek-at-my-ballot/#comment-41125 Jo Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:14:49 +0000 http://knitnut.net/?p=815#comment-41125 Your ballot looks like my ballot! :) Your ballot looks like my ballot!

:)

]]> By: Milan http://www.knitnut.net/2008/10/you-can-peek-at-my-ballot/#comment-41123 Milan Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:54:28 +0000 http://knitnut.net/?p=815#comment-41123 I thought this was a safe NDP riding, so I decided to reward the Liberals for proposing a carbon tax. Hopefully, a defeat for them tonight would not create a persistent association between carbon pricing and electoral failure. I thought this was a safe NDP riding, so I decided to reward the Liberals for proposing a carbon tax.

Hopefully, a defeat for them tonight would not create a persistent association between carbon pricing and electoral failure.

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