Showing posts with label voting process jammed up. Show all posts
Showing posts with label voting process jammed up. Show all posts

Thursday, 15 October 2015

Stephen Harper and My Part in His Downfall (part 6), Voting

Lineup outside the advance polling station last Monday:



I entered about 1pm, got done around 1;35, total time 35 minutes.  I was about 25th in the lineup.

They only had enough staff to process one voter at a time.  I talked to someone else who had to undergo a 1-hour wait so I can't complain.  But I will anyway since there's no reason to have to stand in line that long.  There was room for more staff and ballot boxes.  The benefits of running an effective election process should seem worth the risk involved in spending a little more every few years.  It has been postulated that a difficult voting process favours the conservative vote.  I don't know if this is true or not but I do know that the budget is controlled by the Conservative government.  Perhaps it's easier for Conservatives to get time off work to come out and vote.