Hello Rob and Everyone reading...

This might be a first for this NET ... But after reading all
of what Rob posted...I am in total agreement, and I can
offer up no opinion or counter "pro" or "con" ...

Ah shucks :)

 -=> Quoting Rob Mccart to Peter Coggon <=-

 PC>  Well Ontario has finished voting...
 
 PC>  This year I voted, and I found I was in the minority as only 47%
 >of eligble voters bothered to go to advanced polls and vote for
 >their local candidate as well the Referundum on MMP.
 
 PC>  Now for stats ....  Record people not voting was 53 %    and there
 >was reports of poll problems, and many must have walked out, as well
 >polling stations over yonder well out of the way...etc.  They say
 >the record is 55% set in 1925.

 RM> The numbers being thrown around vary a bit but they all agree with
 RM> what you basically said.

 RM> What CTV National News said was that for the last provincial election
 RM> the voter turnout was 56.4% and was the lowest in history until then.
 RM> This election the turnout was 52.4%.  Given the huge Liberal majority
 RM> it sounds like the Conservatives are staying home.
 RM> A two term majority Liberal gov't also hasn't happened in 70 years.
 RM> It appears the Conservatives did a good job of messing things up
 RM> when they were last in power..

 RM> They also said that it's not so much the Liberals gaining ground as it
 RM> was the Conservatives Losing gtound, but the lost Conservative seats
 RM> didn't go to the Liberals, they went to the other smaller parties like
 RM> the NDP and Green party.

 RM> The Mixed Member Parliament number you mentioned was that 63% voted
 RM> against (37% for) changing the voting system. I believe they needed
 RM> a minimum of 75% to vote FOR the change before it would be adopted.

 RM> In any case that's just numbers. The end result, if a little more
 RM> dramatic than anticipated, was pretty much what I expected going in.

 RM> -!-
 RM> * SLMR Rob  * Democracy: Voting for the person you don't want the
 RM> least * PDQWK 2.52 #17


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