Well I voted.

[delrem]

Busy polling station. Zero wait time.
No black box proprietary closed source software, no fancy "chads", just a slip of paper, a pencil for marking an 'X', and a box to drop it in - and at the end of the day a counting process with volunteer scrutineers from all parties to ensure a fair count. Couldn't be faster, simpler or more fool-proof.

Interesting watching the people on the sidewalk, coming back from voting - all with this strange glow. Hopefully with a "yeah! take that, Harper, you washed up (expletive deleted)".

[fredamae]

1. Best of luck! :) n/t

[Fred Sanders]

2. A glorious day for all Canadians. The Dark Age of Harper, 8 long years, will be over in hours!

146 to 118 to 66 final accumulated polling projections:


http://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/poll-tracker/2015/index.html

[quakerboy]

3. Curious

How long between election results, certification, and actually being installed in office?

Never trust a con. Even if its only a few days in between, expect them to try and slip through some last second shenanigans.

[Fred Sanders]

4. Not sure. There is a federal Governer-General who will be asked by the party with the most seats

to "form a government". But if one party does not get a winning majority of seats it gets a bit more complicated, but not much.

Parliament is convened within weeks and a motion of confidence in the winning party is held in which 50% of the MP's must vote for the proposed government.

The vote result is delivered to the GG and the GG confers government status in the party.

I think I am close.

[shenmue]

5. But were there cookies?

First time my Mom took me with her on Election Day, there were cookies.

I'm just saying.

[delrem]

6. There was a bar with all you can drink free beer,

but the pikers turned off the tap for you after you voted. If I had known that last little tidbit I'd still be there - tho' maybe passed out in a corner with the others.

[shenmue]

7. You Canadians have all the fun

I have got to get a passport.

[Matilda]

8. We also have pencil and paper in Australia.

The best way to go.

[delrem]

13. The ONLY way to go.

If a country wants to retain their democracy, they won't go with black box electronic machines.
After they've gone with the machines, they've lost their democracy. Period. They've traded their democracy for a dictator behind a curtain.

[laundry_queen]

15. absolutely. nt

[Joe Shlabotnik]

9. I voted in the advanced polls

I should have went with my gut, since we are strong Conservative riding and voted for the Communist party instead of the NDP. Closer to my values anyhow.

[delrem]

10. What????????

Oh no. You're not going to spoil my evening with chatter about Canadian "communists".

[Joe Shlabotnik]

11. If you are enjoying the evening, then by all means please enjoy.

If you are Lib supporter, the night is yours, Congrats!

(But starting tomorrow I want my legal weed) I'll need it to to cope.

[delrem]

12. I tend NDP, but am "independent" by nature.

I have no illusions about Justin Trudeau, but on the other hand I liked his father's patriotism. (Some called Pierre a commie but he wasn't anything near.) I imagine that Justin learned a bit from that kind of nurturing, and as some women of my acquaintance have been saying, he's a bit of a wild card - his mother doesn't easily fit a political niche either. Primarily I'm happy to be finally rid of that evil corporate lackey, Steven Harper. Whatever a Trudeau leadership will bring us, I don't think he'll just fuck Canada over at big oil, big banks, big war's bidding.

I don't expect my individual vote to "matter", and will happily vote my choice in whatever riding, whatever circumstances - and I do vote strategically. In my riding it was a no-brainer. But whether or not my candidate wins isn't the end of the story. I'm not the type to cast a vote for what I've been told is to be the "sure winner", just to be on the "winning" side. I'll piss right into the wind if e.g. it means aiming at Harper, regardless of the splashback.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

14. I had a lot of respect for PET too.

But I can't help but think that Justin is an inexperienced leader controlled by handlers on Bay street. I remember the carnage on poor and unemployed folks, and people that needed affordable housing, and cuts to healthcare that Paul Marin and Chretien caused in their efforts to please international banks, and of course the scandals, which are are being swept under the rug provincially in Ontario by a Liberal majority government. And of course campaign promises that never materialize as well. Hopefully I'm wrong, but I think Justin is an entitled follower. The Establishment media took a page from Obama's 2008 election and made him rock star. The Liberal Party followed Wynne's successful strategy of fear (a vote for the NDP = a vote for CONS), and amplified it to the national stage.

Don't get me wrong I'm thrilled to be rid of Harper, but I think Canadians are choosing hopey-changey over sound governance. Its true that the current NDP is not my CCF of old NDP, but I thought they had the best policy. So, knowing that my vote wouldn't have mattered, I might as well have voted for my local Communist Party candidate. I've done it before.

[delrem]

16. Well, Justin Trudeau will have his acid test VERY early.

Since the USA is insane.