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Originally Posted by Eric Vail
I have always voted in every election that I have had an opportunity to.
It makes me wonder though. The number of recall votes is tied to the number of votes in the previous election. If I felt the UCP was going to win in a landslide, would it be better if I had not voted which would make the recall a bit easier?
Just something that popped into my head.
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Not surprisingly, it is just another mechanism that the conservatives have built to make voters question whether they should even show up to vote. They are really big on voter suppression, just look at how their rule changes impacted the municipal election and caused many people to give up and not vote.
My take away is that we need electoral reform to replace the FPTP system with a PR or MMPR system. My preference is MMPR because that system still has riding level candidates driving local votes but then the total votes that each party receives will elect some non-riding representatives too in alignment with the popular vote.
MMPR makes everyone's vote count. Having all votes count with the same weight as any other vote in the province / country is how you empower people and increase voter turnouts. It also gives you more accurate results as to how the government represents the people.
Implementing the new system might not see immediate results provincially as it would take time for people to adjust their thinking but if it could encourage voter turnouts closer to 90% instead of 60% then that would be better for our democracy.