Municipal elections can be confusing beasts. Here in Kitchener Waterloo, for instance, we have on the ballot a mayor, 2 councils (city and regional), a Regional Chair and whatever your flavour of school board. You cast one vote for Mayor, one for ward representative on your city council, one for Chair of the Regional Council, …
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We’ve Voted In Our First Municipal Election Since Moving Here
Well, Steve and I set off yesterday to vote in the municipal election, and I’d say this one was one of the easiest experiences yet. We decided to go to City Hall, mostly because I pretty much knew where that was. A couple of questions to people randomly standing around, and in we went. We …
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Accessible Voting In The Waterloo Region: Here Are All Your Options…I Think…
I usually don’t wait until the day before advanced polling starts to put up a link to accessible stuff around the region, but a. Captain Nameless Illness is making me work really slow, and b. We’re still figuring out this huuuge city, so didn’t have much of a clue. So, it took longer to make …
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That Was Sure Surprising, Wasn’t It?
Well, that was pointless. Completely useless. Nothing was settled. Total waste of time and money. Here we are, right back where we started. Another minori…wait, what? Honestly, I did not expect this at all. I don’t see how anyone could have. Opinion polls around elections only have so much value and there’s only so much …
Are The Accessible Voting Machines Really This Difficult?
I want to sympathize with Steve Cutway, I really do. But unless he can’t read Braille (he apparently can), is slow (I get the sense he’s not), has never opened a bottle or in some other way figured out how a raised arrow works, never got lessons from the adults in his life on what …
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Elections Ontario: We Make Voting Easy…Except We Don’t.
I was going to write about this anyway, but then I got a request for it. Awesome! People like reading about our wacky adventures. I feel bad that this is only going up the night before the actual election day, so can’t help anyone else who might want to use assistive voting, but oh well. …
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Voting, Accessible Voting And A Voting Song Of Questionable Enjoyability
We spent a decent little chunk of time a few weeks back on different versions of Jolene. It was fun, so let’s revisit it, shall we? Only this time we’ll do so in topical parody form, because of course there would be a version made for the upcoming Ontario election. I wonder who this guy’s …
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I’m Tired Of Bronco Bamma!
The U.S. election is over thank the lord, but I still think we can all relate to 4-year-old Abigael here. I’ve definitely had my fill of Bronco Bamma and Mitt Romminey, that’s for sure. Don’t you just want to give this kid the biggest hug?
The Problems With First Past The Post Voting Explained
The other day at work, for some reason, we got talking about the whole First Past the Post electoral system. One of my coworkers mentioned a video aboutwhat’s bad about first past the post systems as illustrated by fictitious animal kingdom candidates. Kind of a neat, easy to understand video. Enjoy.
Is There A Lack Of Oxygen To His Brain?
I present to you Mitt Romney, United States presidential candidate. Romney’s wife, Ann, was in attendance, and the candidate spoke of the concern he had for her when her plane had to make an emergency landing Friday en route to Santa Monica because of an electrical malfunction. “I appreciate the fact that she is on …