What I wrote in the monster thread:
I agree 1,000,000% (that we need proportional representation). I know a lot of people that said that they were not going to bother go vote because they saw the local polls and they knew who was going to win. They felt that it was absolutely pointless to go to the polls since their vote meant absolutely nothing, nada, zippo.
Let's look at Central Nova. I haven't the foggiest idea what the hell May was thinking when she ran here... that is a staunchly Conservative riding. The last results I saw were McKay with about 20,000 votes, May with 11,000 votes and the NDP candidate with 7,000 votes. Those 7,000 NDPers must get sick of getting up every couple of years, going out to the polling station, just to finished way, way behind McKay. Eventually, people get smart and just stay home and watch Jeopardy.
And there is a general malaise among voters that believe that it's all a bunch of crap..... there were people here talking about spoiling their ballots because there are no good candidates. Well multiply that by thousands of people that just don't go to the polls because "they are all a bunch of crooks".
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