Canada

I'm always shocked when I talk to a woman who doesn't vote in particular. Like your ancestors had to fight for that right very hard, why wouldn't you exercise it?

In Mexico, I had to apply to be added to the Register of International Electors, which i did on 24 March. My wife received her ballot kit on 4 April. Mine had to be resent by Elections Canada due to my Canadian postal code being entered as my address abroad. Nevertheless, i received my ballot kit on 11 or 12 April. On 14 April, in cooperation with another Canadian couple, we put all four of the envelopes in a DHL envelope and sent it back. Three days later I was notified by EC that they were received. So our mail-in ballots reached our respective electoral districts in good time to be counted. Just a good news story! FYI: The DHL envelope and the outermost EC envelope had both been opened, presumably by Mexican Customs officials.

Me too. It arrived on election day!

That happened to me last election 🙄

There were huge issues in Nunavik as well, leading to many indigenous communities essentially losing the right to vote https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/makivvik-corp-calls-for-investigation-after-voting-irregularities-in-nunavik/

That discrepancy hit me as well. How are the seats determined?

Fuck dude Canadians dont even know what provincial governments do. They get mad at: the carbon tax, healthcare, infrastructure, education, and housing yet at every turn that's on the province to fund and manage. The federal government chips in to help of course but the province MANAGES it at the end of the day. And before anybody says "the carbon tax was Trudeau Though!", I'm sorry, but the carbon tax was only a federal MINIMUM if your province didn't have a system in place already. Or when they got rid of any other pricing system like Ontario did, Alberta did and Saskatchewan did and then got all pissy when they had to pay it and not a single fucking moron in those provinces hated on the premiers for it.

Canadians can be just as fucking dumb as Americans and it was really showing these last 5 years

This makes no sense... Unless you wanted conservatives to win, that number should have only made you want to go out and vote that much more.

And if you WANTED cons to win, it also should have made you want to go out and vote more because that landslide win won't happen without people going out to make it happen.

Mine was at 94% so I also felt like not voting. I did anyway and the Cons still won but it was actually a much closer result than what the polls had made it out to be. First time in a long time we haven't been orange though so that really sucks.

I regret looking because it made me not even want to go out and vote.

This is the main reason I think poll prediction media should be banned during elections. People can change things by voting, but you'd never know it from the election "advice" plastered everywhere. I believe it promotes an apathy vote where people just stay home more than anything informative or otherwise useful.

ty for going anyway.

Our riding was projected 99% Conservative win but we went NDP. The riding specific forecasts are misleading, and I wonder how many important votes stayed home because they looked at the forecast and thought it was pointless.

My city is a giant retirement community pretending to be a city, so naturally a Conservative always wins. Didn't stop me from voting anyway, because fuck 'em. Hopefully things change when the retirees biff it.

If the parties don’t see even marginal gains in a region they won’t bother putting resources towards increasing that growth and eventually flipping a seat.

If we ever get away from first past the post they also need to see that it would benefit them to have second place.

It’s important to vote regardless of the outcome.

Not a bad idea