“The Nov. 28 Kelowna by-election may break the previous record low turnout of 14 per cent that was recorded in 1984 when Norm Fix was elected from a field of six contenders.”
We could take lessons in democracy from Estonia
| Started 2 years ago by Marshall Jones | (4 posts) (2 voices) |
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Posted by unregistered user: matthew reed
Well it is not that simple.
I really could care less about the food.
I care because someone was breaking a rule in the Local Government Act, was told, and to my interpretation continued to break the rule.
It is all a personal perception and how much “bending” of the rule of law that you personally feel is acceptable in society.
Campaign law should not be bent or spun.
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Posted by unregistered user: matthew reed
Voter turnout, and youth turnout, would be awesome if there was electronic voting. My wife add I were talking about this a few months ago and we both thought that a voting via mobile phones would be great.
Let’s say when buy mobile phone your phone number would be given and ID to your name, so if you buy another phone you do net get 2 votes. Then your off to vote.
If we have online banking and all that other financial stuff on the internet, so why not voting as well? It would change the demographics of voting overnight.
In doing so it would revolutionize the way we do politics.
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Posted by unregistered user: John Zeger
Kelowna City Council could have taken steps to improve voter turnout by putting a referendum item on the ballot e.g., on the downtown CD Zone, but they were too fearful of real democracy taking place here to allow that to happen. I was at the meeting where Councillors Blanleil, Hobson and James smugly said that THEY were elected to make decisions, and that they didn’t like referendums. If a new low is set in voter turnout in this by-election, Kelowna residents should remember their names.
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