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Are you voting for the Provincial Elections? You do not have permission to vote on this poll.
Yes	28	73.68%
No	7	18.42%
Maybe	3	7.89%
Total:	38 votes	100%

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rabbitjoker
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Registered: Aug 2002
Location: Toronto, ON, CANADA

quote:
Originally posted by rabbitjoker
With mixed-member proportional - a certain number of MPPs are seated due to being "list-elected" (the list members make up the proportional representation for the party). List-elected MPPs did not win the riding vote...

It's also important to consider how parties can manipulate their "list"... Placing party "friends" into candidate positions in areas they expect to lose so that when it comes time to award list seats the party friends get spots in parliament.

Overall the list concept just doesn't make sense.

Our current system is best: One vote, one MPP to answer to the constituents. Only elected officials should be representing the people.

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Sep-24-2007 19:01 Canada

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Abercrombie
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Registered: Sep 2005
Location: Aurora Borealis

There's a lot of TAs I know who aren't eligible to vote, so I would suggest your poll to say 'if elligible'.

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Sep-24-2007 20:19 Canada

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smuncky
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Registered: Dec 2003
Location: richmond hill, ontario, canada

not a citizen

but honestly, the issues i'm concerned about have not come up to the degree i feel is necessary by any of the parties.

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DigiNut
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Registered: Dec 2002
Location: Toronto, Self-proclaimed Centre of the Universe

Re: Voting?

quote:
Originally posted by m2j
It's not that difficult to pick up a newspaper and read a little bit about what's going on in the world outside of Britney Spears' MTV performance and shit like that.

I think it's far, far more dangerous for people to be voting based on a handful of newspaper articles than it is for those people to just not vote.

I'm still on the fence about the electoral reform. I understand all of the disadvantages, but proportional representation probably would have stopped the government from cramming through garbage legislation like the City of Toronto Act. Yes, it slows the process down, but there are reasons why the process should be slow... so many of the worst political decisions are often made in haste, or rammed through so quickly that nobody has a chance to debate the issues.

Decisions, decisions...

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