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More than 100 candidates — most in Canadian history — to run against Poilievre in byelection

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In the general election Carleton had 91 candidates on a ballot 38 inches long. This will be longer.

Next month's byelection in Alberta's Battle River-Crowfoot will break the record for the most candidates on a federal ballot in Canadian history.

As of Friday, 108 candidates — mostly associated with a group of electoral reform advocates known as the Longest Ballot Committee — have registered to run for the seat.
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@Hamish Howl
 
Grand Mal said:
Gawd. I saw that pic in another thread. Is that real? Do you have to put the whole thing into the ballot box or can you tear off what's above and below?
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The whole thing goes in. Federal election ballots are all hand counted as well so the ballot counters have to wrangle all that paper.
 
Allan said:
The whole thing goes in. Federal election ballots are all hand counted as well so the ballot counters have to wrangle all that paper.
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Yikes.
Seems like they could be divided into four or six, since only one will be chosen. Five ballots and you choose the one you want to vote for and trash the rest.
 
Canadians: Drowning in choices.
Americans: Drowning in the lack thereof.

Well done, Canada. Yet again.
 
Binary_Digit said:
Canadians: Drowning in choices.
Americans: Drowning in the lack thereof.

Well done, Canada. Yet again.
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Carney seems to be enjoying an extended honeymoon period. So much so in fact that the Conservatives voted 'yea' for his first major piece of legislation, Bill C-5.
 
My rebuttal to criticism of this is the people of Carleton seemed to have no problem finding Fanjoy's name.
 
Allan said:
In the general election Carleton had 91 candidates on a ballot 38 inches long. This will be longer.




@Hamish Howl
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Poor little "Peppi".

That's my name for him, a conjunction of preppy and, well, always looking like his mother dressed him.

Peppi took lessons from John Diefenbaker. He has the same chippy personality and similar poor taste in clothes. This, and that stunningly stupid, awful, over-the-top, humiliating bite of the apple proves that he is unfit for true leadership. He's an icon at best, a cardboard cut out of a human doing with the passion of a hockey puck.

I should not need to point out that he lost the safest seat in Ontario, which he had held for 20 years or more. That's hard to do! You really need to piss off your voters and absolutely have them convinced you're not fit for office! After having voted you in year after year....

Yeah, very hard to do.

Now he's made a mockery of the safest Tory seat in Canada!

Meanwhile, NO ONE is comparing him to Carney! Which should tell you something about what happens when Carney and co. drop a huge, deficit feeding, vote buying budget....as they will soon?

The Canadian voter isn't listening to him now. A typically generous Liberal budget will make him ****ing invisible.

Waste of skin
 
Fearandloathing said:
Nope!

Tear it and go to jail!
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Damn!
Somehow that works to someone's advantage, I bet somebody is paying the fees for all those dozens of candidates, I just can't figure out how and why.
 
Grand Mal said:
Damn!
Somehow that works to someone's advantage, I bet somebody is paying the fees for all those dozens of candidates, I just can't figure out how and why.
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No.

I've spent my life studying Canadian politics. This, you should know, is the country where the Rhinoceros party was formed and thrived for two decades.

No, this is Canada and our true attitude toward politics; it's all a ****ing joke anyway!

This 'campaign" is so Canadian, it's impossible for me to explain it. But, in the end its the perfect comment, a stupid,expensive by election for no reason other than this fat little **** can't get elected!!!

This is political manipulation at its worst. If he loses this, what? he runs in Newfoundland?

He got beat.

fold the tent. go home
 
Fearandloathing said:
No.

I've spent my life studying Canadian politics. This, you should know, is the country where the Rhinoceros party was formed and thrived for two decades.
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I voted Rhino once! Pierre pissed me off for showing his middle finger to protesters in Salmon Arm so I voted for Albert the Cad. Richard the Troll was the party leader that year.
Only time in my life I voted for anyone who wasn't a Liberal in a federal election. If I don't like the leader (cough-Ignatieff-ahem) I sit it out.
Fearandloathing said:
No, this is Canada and our true attitude toward politics; it's all a ****ing joke anyway!

This 'campaign" is so Canadian, it's impossible for me to explain it. But, in the end its the perfect comment, a stupid,expensive by election for no reason other than this fat little **** can't get elected!!!

This is political manipulation at its worst. If he loses this, what? he runs in Newfoundland?

He got beat.

fold the tent. go home
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Grand Mal said:
I voted Rhino once! Pierre pissed me off for showing his middle finger to protesters in Salmon Arm so I voted for Albert the Cad. Richard the Troll was the party leader that year.
Only time in my life I voted for anyone who wasn't a Liberal in a federal election. If I don't like the leader (cough-Ignatieff-ahem) I sit it out.
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I drank and smoke dope with those guys in Montreal.

They actually had a pet Rhino for awhile. Can't remember the name

I loved the transportation policy. Switch to left hand drive, phased in because Canadians don't like change. Cars the first year, trucks and busses the second.

Man there sas a lot o fdope involved
 
Grand Mal said:
Yikes.
Seems like they could be divided into four or six, since only one will be chosen. Five ballots and you choose the one you want to vote for and trash the rest.
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Too much room for error and skull drudgery

I've been in the count room. One Elections Canada rep and a rep from each party count the ballots by hand. There's a cop or a security guard at every table. You empty your pockets upon entry and are searched on the way out.

There are double and triple counts on the total.

This system is why Canada refuses to use machines. It's fool proof.
 
Grand Mal said:
I voted Rhino once! Pierre pissed me off for showing his middle finger to protesters in Salmon Arm so I voted for Albert the Cad. Richard the Troll was the party leader that year.
Only time in my life I voted for anyone who wasn't a Liberal in a federal election. If I don't like the leader (cough-Ignatieff-ahem) I sit it out.
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My favorite Rhino policy proposal (in the days of switching to metric)...

"We're going to switch to left hand drive. It will be phased in with trucks and busses going first".
 
Allan said:
My favorite Rhino policy proposal (in the days of switching to metric)...

"We're going to switch to left hand drive. It will be phased in with trucks and busses going first".
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Mine was to flatten the rockies mountains
 
An update on this by-election. 209 candidates on a ballot that will be more than a meter (39 inches) long.

Pierre is fuming about this.

As of Sunday evening, 209 candidates had registered to run in Battle River-Crowfoot, exceeding the committee's goal of 200.

That's more than double the previous record of 91 which has occurred twice in the past year: during a byelection in LaSalle-Emard-Verdun last September and Carleton during the last general election.

That number of candidates resulted in a ballot roughly a metre long. The massive ballots have resulted in delays in vote counting and have confounded some voters.
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