[GT] Canada Election 2025

[btimbit]

Originally Posted by troutman

Voted in one minute in Coleman today. People that voted early had long waits. I think it is faster to vote on election day - more people work at the polls.

Definitely this time with advance voting happening over a long weekend

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by btimbit

Definitely this time with advance voting happening over a long weekend

I advanced on Good Friday and it was mindnumbing.

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by troutman

Voted in one minute in Coleman today. People that voted early had long waits. I think it is faster to vote on election day - more people work at the polls.

It only took me 1 minute in advanced voting at SAIT. But for sure, they need way more people working for early voting.

[IamNotKenKing]

Originally Posted by Matty81

For sure looks like a massive voter turnout coming with a crazy 7.3 million advance votes. Nice to see the engagement level and I realized he has driven that and pretty much completely turned the election into a contest himself, but boy I hope Trump keeps his damned mouth shut the rest of the day except to congratulate the winner.

[OldSam]

Trump thinks Canadian voters are voting for him. Yeh, that guy is totally normal.

[puckedoff]

Continued my ongoing bit of pestering my wife to vote, extolling the importance of democracy, dragging her to the voting station and promptly wasting my vote on Larry Heather.

[ah123]

Trump is going to be sooooo disappointed to find out he did not receive one vote. Will probably call for an investigation

[The Yen Man]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

I advanced on Good Friday and it was mindnumbing.

I advance voted, but on the Saturday afternoon because I figured people might vote early on Friday before going on a trip for the long weekend. In and out in 5 minutes. There was no one in front of me.

Life long conservative voter, voted Liberals for the first time ever. Just can't stomach PP and his antics. I don't think he'd be any different than Trudeau in terms of qualifications to run a country.

[MarchHare]

Originally Posted by ah123

Trump is going to be sooooo disappointed to find out he did not receive one vote. Will probably call for an investigation

I've seen some Maple MAGA types posting videos of themselves spoiling their ballots to write-in Trump.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by The Yen Man

I advance voted, but on the Saturday afternoon because I figured people might vote early on Friday before going on a trip for the long weekend. In and out in 5 minutes. There was no one in front of me.

Life long conservative voter, voted Liberals for the first time ever. Just can't stomach PP and his antics. I don't think he'd be any different than Trudeau in terms of qualifications to run a country.

Crazy after hating Trudeau for so long that some people actually want someone with less real world experience and more distaste and even hate for everyday Canadians.

[TorqueDog]

Do they provide the counts and publish the names of write-in candidates?

As MarchHare says, there's likely a non-zero sum of right-wing voters who are going to write or already wrote-in Donald Trump on their ballots, and I want to see how many potential votes the CPC lost because of it.

[Maccalus]

I had a surprisingly long line this morning in the Calgary-Centre riding during the morning rush. I had to wait for 15 mins in line. The longest that I have waited to vote for a federal election ever. Doubt that it stayed that busy past that before work rush.

[dieHARDflameZ]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Crazy after hating Trudeau for so long that some people actually want someone with less real world experience and more distaste and even hate for everyday Canadians.

LOL where do you come up with this garbage?

[Firebot]

Voted for Corey Hogan / Carney for reasons I stated in the federal thread.

Very easy to vote middle of day, no lines.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by dieHARDflameZ

LOL where do you come up with this garbage?

Originally Posted by Scrambler

I can understand why some do not like PP, that's their opinion. But Carney's CV is great for an executive job, not necessarily running a country. Time will tell though. He may flop worse than Trudeau and set up a Conservative Super Majority in the next go (CPC may have new leader by then too, who knows).

Here's an example of someone saying they don't think Carney has the experience to run the country.

[chemgear]

Today is the day! Exercise your right.

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Here's an example of someone saying they don't think Carney has the experience to run the country.

hahaha. Mark Carney's little finger could run the country better than Trudeau! lol

and his middle finger will run it better than Pierre Yappydog.

[Mathgod]

Same here, quick & easy process.

Very unlikely that MRG gets ousted from her seat, but never say never!

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by Mathgod

Same here, quick & easy process.

Very unlikely that MRG gets ousted from her seat, but never say never!

Is she even in the country? Isn't she shooting wild hogs in Arkansas?

[Russic]

It actually raises a reasonable question of what type of experience works best in politics. Career politician? Finance background? Lawyer? Everyday Normal Guy? Is there even a trend or does it generally come down to character?