[GT] Calgary Municipal Election 2021

[ajr4013]

Special thanks to the 942 idiots who voted for Roberts.

[MegaErtz]

I’m torn. Chu is obviously not someone I want on council, but at the same time, democracy must be respected. Look at how little council was able to do when Magliocca was caught. The province are unlikely to step in as this happened in 1997.

[Slava]

Originally Posted by timun

I would think that the further north you go, the less support going to permanent MDT/CST there will be.

Grande Prairie voted 56% against this motion.

[SebC]

If you're taking the position of judicial non-interference, shouldn't "have the information available to voters" be the default, non-interference state, and withholding the information be the interference state? Or was non-interference not relevant at all to the decision?

[You Need a Thneed]

Originally Posted by Robbob

With it being scantron, there isn't any point doing a recount. Maybe the mail in ballots? 52 is so close, I feel bad for DJ with that margin.

A recount will be done, but I don’t know if it will make up 52 votes.

27 people to change their vote us all it would have taken.

[MegaErtz]

I’d like to see a public inquiry regarding the details of the publication ban and why it was lifted.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by Robbob

With it being scantron, there isn't any point doing a recount. Maybe the mail in ballots? 52 is so close, I feel bad for DJ with that margin.

When did mail ins have to arrive by? Is there any hope that there are still uncounted mail ins out there that are eligible to be counted.

The people to blame are the non-voters. They would have potentially heard this news and did nothing. All that was needed was 53 of them.

An funny scenario would be Chu resigns and Farkas runs and wins.

[Lubicon]

Originally Posted by Robbob

With it being scantron, there isn't any point doing a recount. Maybe the mail in ballots? 52 is so close, I feel bad for DJ with that margin.

Mail in ballots were the same (I assume) scantron ones as the regular vote. Based on what mine looked like.

Originally Posted by GGG

When did mail ins have to arrive by? Is there any hope that there are still uncounted mail ins out there that are eligible to be counted.

The people to blame are the non-voters. They would have potentially heard this news and did nothing. All that was needed was 53 of them.

An funny scenario would be Chu resigns and Farkas runs and wins.

Mail in ballots had to be received by yesterday, by 4pm IIRC.

[getbak]

Originally Posted by GGG

When did mail ins have to arrive by? Is there any hope that there are still uncounted mail ins out there that are eligible to be counted.

All mail-in ballots had to be received by 4:00pm yesterday. They were done with the scannable ballots as the other votes, so they should all be included in the final count.

[getbak]

I know everyone should vote for the person who best represents them, but if only 2% of the people who voted for Angela McIntyre had gone with Kelly (looking at her platform, I assume few of her voters would have supported Chu), it would have made up the difference.

[Mazrim]

Originally Posted by GGG

An funny scenario would be Chu resigns and Farkas runs and wins.

I wish I hadn't read this sentence.

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by MegaErtz

All council can do is vote to strip his office of funding and try to convince him to resign. Hard to do this job without an office assistant.

I find it hard to believe he had an assistant and could still be so utterly unprepared for everything.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Originally Posted by Wormius

I find it hard to believe he had an assistant and could still be so utterly unprepared for everything.

Hey man, don’t be so hard on her. She’s probably 15.

[spetch]

Man the DST one is gonna be close. Hopefully Edmonton makes it a "NO" win, but right now only counting Red Deer, Calgary, Lethbridge and Medicine Hat its a 4462 vote difference.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by Mazrim

I wish I hadn't read this sentence.

In the Chu resigns scenario I think it’s the most likely outcome.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Originally Posted by spetch

Man the DST one is gonna be close. Hopefully Edmonton makes it a "NO" win, but right now only counting Red Deer, Calgary, Lethbridge and Medicine Hat its a 4462 vote difference.

Based on the earlier comment about northern communities being more “no” than south, that actually bodes well.

[RedHot25]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1450515652469420041

[spetch]

Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

Based on the earlier comment about northern communities being more “no” than south, that actually bodes well.

But as we all know, E=NG so……….

[MoneyGuy]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang

My trustee candidate (Dana Downey, against the UCP curriculum draft, and winner!) sent an email last night and said that they'd be rounding up the lawn signs starting today.

This is the first time that I have had a candidate come and get their sign on private property, but it works for me. I hope that they get re-used in 4 years, if needed.

Of course, pre-election sign disappearances are a different thing entirely.

I had eight signs on my lawn and four are now gone.

[getbak]

Originally Posted by spetch

Man the DST one is gonna be close. Hopefully Edmonton makes it a "NO" win, but right now only counting Red Deer, Calgary, Lethbridge and Medicine Hat its a 4462 vote difference.

It looks like Grande Prairie adds about 1,100 to the No side: https://everythinggp.com/2021/10/19/...ation-removal/