
<head></head><body data-blackberry-caret-color="#00a8df" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: initial;"><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fascinating and unfair. Dissenters shouldn't have to hold group temper tantrums on the front lawn of Centre Block, Parliament Hill to have their views heard. Their MPs should be doing the talking for them inside the House of Commons. Remember what Susan B. Anthony said in the mid 1800s in the USA about women being refused the vote. "No taxation without representation."</div>                                                                                                                                     <p style="font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.</p>                                                                                                                                                                           <table width="100%" style="background-color:white;border-spacing:0px;"> <tbody><tr><td colspan="2" style="font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">                                              <div id="_persistentHeader" style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 3pt 0in 0in; font-family: Tahoma, 'BB Alpha Sans', 'Slate Pro'; font-size: 10pt;">  <div><b>From: </b>Eleanor Grant</div><div><b>Sent: </b>Monday, February 27, 2017 5:08 PM</div><div><b>To: </b>fvc-wat-disc@listserv.thinkers.org</div><div><b>Reply To: </b>FVC Waterloo Region Discussion</div><div><b>Subject: </b>[fvc-wat-disc] Total ballots ...</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(186, 188, 209); border-top-width: 1pt; font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><br><div id="_originalContent" style=""><div dir="auto">Hi Fair Voters - <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">These are the numbers that Jenn found for me on Feb 9.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif">Results of 2015 Oct 19 election:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif">35,749,600 - Population of Canada</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif">25,638,379 - Eligible Voters</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif">17,559,353 - Ballots cast</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif">  8,214,532 - Effective votes</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif">  9,106,926 - "Wasted" votes, elected no one.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif">I noticed the numbers don't add up;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif">237,895 votes are unaccounted for.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif">Would there be that many spoiled ballots across the country?</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif">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.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif">Eleanor </div></div></div>

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