[fvc-wat-disc] Total ballots ...

[John Cooper]

in a democracy (whatever that is) , no vote is a ‘wasted vote’. Everyone who meets the criteria has a right – and a duty as a citizen - to vote.

It’s only wasted if you did not vote according to your principles and values for the person or party who shares those with you or you did not vote at all.

 

There’s a difference between a ‘wasted vote’ and a ‘principled vote’.

 

The real issue is whether the person elected receives more than a simple plurality of votes over the other candidates.

Is that democracy?

 

The people who voted for the ‘winners’ and are not happy with the decisions of those ‘winners’ after they gained power – those are wasted votes

because you did not vote according to your principles. You got ‘sucked in’ by the promises of liars.

 

 

From: fvc-wat-disc [mailto:fvc-wat-disc-bounces at listserv.thinkers.org] On Behalf Of Eleanor Grant
Sent: February-27-17 5:08 PM
To: fvc-wat-disc at listserv.thinkers.org
Subject: [fvc-wat-disc] Total ballots ...

 

Hi Fair Voters - 

 

These are the numbers that Jenn found for me on Feb 9.

 

Results of 2015 Oct 19 election:

35,749,600 - Population of Canada

25,638,379 - Eligible Voters

17,559,353 - Ballots cast

  8,214,532 - Effective votes

  9,106,926 - "Wasted" votes, elected no one.

 

I noticed the numbers don't add up;

237,895 votes are unaccounted for.

Would there be that many spoiled ballots across the country?

 

But even if all of these were added to the effective votes, they're still far outnumbered by the votes which elected no one.  That's scandalous.

 

Eleanor 

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