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Originally Posted by SebC
I don't presume to know the voting patterns of First Nations in urban areas, but there are millions of Canadians whose votes "don't count". For starters, anyone who votes Green. Second, anyone who votes for a candidate who didn't win. Third, anyone who votes for a candidate who does win wastes a portion of their vote corresponding to the margin by which that candidate won. There are a lot of people who are unrepresented in first past the post.
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Obviously their votes were counted, otherwise we wouldn't know who won.
Trying to paint this as being unprepresented is patently false.
In our democracy, everyone is represented by their vote. One person, one vote.
The mechanics of forming government is open to millions of hairsplitting arguments but pretending their votes are not counted is silly.