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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
"Nenshi and his purple army couldn't motivate voters."
No, I'm pretty sure the conservative movement is to blame for low voter turnout. Seems like the other 65% of voters who stayed home were all clearly going to vote for Jon Lord anyways!
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This is a huge pet peave of mine. Those who support the loser in every election always come at these discussions that if only those who didn't vote showed up, then they all automatically would have voted for their preferred candidate and
blank candidate would have
really won.
A ballot not cast, is an implicit endorsement for the result, hence why these people never bothered to show up!
The MRU prof last night on Shaw's coverage was guilty of this when describing Sean Chu and Joe Maggliocca's election wins, implying that only the extreme marginalized right wing voted for them and that ward 2 and 4 were really 75-80% progressive voters. Chance are if you forced all of ward 2 & 4 eligible voters to vote in a manditory voting process, the result would have been similar, since the apathetic probably would have still voted for these two candidates in similar proportion due to name reconition from signs.