CanPol: Thread of the Year Edition

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by notyoueither


11:30.

And it is surprising how little time it takes. I was very late to vote not long ago and was asked to stay behind as a witness for my poll. It was all done and over in 30 minutes.

So you're shutting BC polls at 7?

EDIT: miscounted the # of zones

[notyoueither]

I was allowing for Atlantic polls to close an hour earlier than everywhere else. Until NFD and NS become the populous powerhouses of Confederation, it would be a safe compromise to allow their results to come early, IMO.

[joncha]

Originally posted by notyoueither
If you want balanced reports of polling, keep polls open in the ETZ and ATZ til 11PM and close them an hour earlier as the zones wash across the country (10PM in CTZ, 9PM in MTZ, etc.).

They would close at 8PM in BC, and the ballots from Quebec City to Victoria could be counted at the same time.

Also, enforce laws allowing time off for voting, or go so far as to ban businesses opening before noon or 2PM on federal election days.

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
**** it. The clowns in BC should just get 5.5 hours less voting time than the poor sods on the rock.

Can't make it to the station by 3:30 p.m.? **** you, you lazy hippie scum.

I'd be in favour of shutting the country down til 3PM PTZ.

There is nothing more important to do, and if you really have a good excuse like national security, or driving public transit, or something, there are advanced polls.

[notyoueither]

But telling the CBC they cannot tell us rubes how the people of Montreal are voting, in this day where I can find it by looking at a web site, is silly.

[Seeker]

Will someone who knows PLEASE tell me what the conservatives have been doing right? I thought they were doomed, but I guess the ad campaign is working?

..or maybe..JUST MAYBE...people finally want to bench the Liberals for a season?

[notyoueither]

Harper ran a positive campaign til Christmas, releasing a policy every day or so, while Martin flondered and gasped for breath. Then traditional liberal media outlets (like the Star) began easing people into the idea of a Harper led government (it's like they know that creating a Mexico of the North is not so hot an idea).

Then Martin got sucker punched by the aftermath of Goodale backtracking on a previously announced policy and timetable for a decision. This, I think, is what will sink them more than anything else, assuming the Tories don't out-sink them.

The Liberals managed to unleash the (undesreved most likely) spectre of corruption upon themselves on the eve of an election.

In short, Martin and Goodale be dumbasses. As Layton said ''there was a time when prime ministers themselves knew what they believe. … We now have a prime minister who thinks Lester Pearson is just the name of an airport."

[Max Webster]

Originally posted by notyoueither
I'd be in favour of shutting the country down til 3PM PTZ.

Hell make it a national holiday. Call it popcorn and beer day.

[Kontiki]

I'm sure having a day off will encourage more people to vote - or go on vacation.

[Flubber]

What a non-issue

Look at the election timing

Time zone Polls open and close in local time
Newfoundland Time
8:30 a.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Atlantic Time
8:30 a.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Eastern Time
9:30 a.m. – 9:30 p.m.

Central Time
8:30 a.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Mountain Time
7:30 a.m. – 7:30 p.m.

Pacific Time
7:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m


That translates to poll closing times using MST where I happen to be of 5 and 5:30 for Atlantic Canada, 7:30 for every other province except 8 pm for BC.

Does the 32 seats of Atlantic Canada make that much of a difference?? ( although frankly I don't know why Atlantic Canadian polls don't close at 9:30 local times like Ontario). Do people really think that the results in Atlantic canada make one whit of difference ?

If you don't then then the only other poll closing discrepency is BC half an hour later than the rest. Do people think that there are scores and scores of people waiting at the polling stations to hear the latest results based on the latest counts, to nip in and vote.

This MIGHT be a practical issue when BC could vote for 2 hours after final results were known in Ontario and Quebec--- but 30 minutes ??? and consider that it might take 15 of those minutes for the first results to start coming in

Non issue

[Kontiki]

It's a huge issue! It's another massive blow that's going to send our country over the tipping point, disingegrating it into 37 independent states! Long live the Kingdom of NE Edmonton! Down with the Republic of SW Calgary! Death to all the Toronto infidels!!!

[Richelieu]

Thank you for stopping all that military talk nonsense. Canada's military? Pleeease!!! People are pointing and laughing...

[Ben Kenobi]

Considering how my previous predictions have worked out, here's what I figure is the best outcome for the Conservatives. This assumes that they will retain every seat they have, and that they will win every seat where they are contesting. I've done it riding by riding, and I also assume that the NDP will win where the riding is contested by both the Liberals and the NDP.

NWT NDP

TOTAL ARCTIC

2 LIB
1 NDP

South Shore St. Margaret's CON
West Nova CON
Darmouth Cole Harbour NDP
Kings Hant CON
Fredericton CON
Madawaska Restigouche NDP
Saint John CON

TOTALS ATLANTIC CANADA

LIB 16
CON 11
NDP 5

Louis St. Laurent CON
Pontiac BQ
Beauce BQ
Chicitoumi-La Fjord BQ
Brossard La Prairie BQ
Brome Missiquoi BQ
Vaudreuil Soulanges BQ
Gatineau BQ
Papineau BQ
Outremont BQ
Laval Les Iles BQ
Jeanne Le Ber BQ
Honore Mercier BQ
Ahuntsic BQ

Totals QUEBEC

BQ 64
LIB 10
CON 1

Totals BC

Vancouver Centre NDP
Vancouver Kingsway NDP
Burnaby New West CON
Burnaby Douglas CON
Fleetwood Pt Kells CON
Newton N Delta CON
New West Coquitlam CON
North Vancouver CON
West Vancouver Sunshine CON
Port Moody Tri Cities CON
South Surrey CON
Pitt Meadows Maple Ridge CON
BC Southern Interio CON
Skeena Bulkley Valley CON
Esquimault Juan de Fuca NDP
Nanaimo Alberni CON
Saanich Gulf Islands CON
Vancouver Island N CON
Victoria NDP

Totals BC

CON 26
LIB 3
NDP 7

Totals Alberta

28 CON

Totals Saskatchewan

13 CON
1 LIB

Totals Manitoba

7 CON
4 NDP
3 LIB

Totals WEST:

74 CON
7 LIB
10 NDP

Total outside Ontario:

86 CON
64 BQ
35 LIB
16 NDP

ONTARIO

50 LIB
16 CON
5 NDP

35 too close:

so before the too close:

85 LIB
102 CON
64 BQ
21 NDP

Beaches East York NDP
Etobicoke Lakeshore NDP
Parkdale High Park NDP
Trinity Spadina NDP
Ancaster CON
Burlington CON
Halton CON
Hamilton East NDP
Hamilton Mountain NDP
Niagara Falls CON
Niagara West CON
Oshawa CON
St Catherines CON
Whitby Oshawa CON
Northumberland CON
Ottawa Centre NDP
Ottawa West CON
Peterborough CON
Glengarry CON
Kenora NDP
Nickel Belt NDP
Nipissing CON
Parry Sound CON
Timmins NDP
Brant CON
Cambridge CON
Haldimand CON
Chatham CON
Essex CON
Kitchener CON
Lambton CON
London CON
London West CON
Barrie CON
Simcoe CON

10 NDP
25 CON

50 LIB
42 CON
15 NDP


ELECTION TOTAL

102+25 = 127 CON

127 CON
85 LIB
62 BQ
31 NDP

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Kontiki
Down with the Republic of SW Calgary! Death to all the Toronto infidels!!!

Hey no criticisms of my republic of SW Calagary !! ( its where I live and work) Its far superior to the KIngdom of NE Edmonton.

[Flubber]

ben so is this your "dream" prediction if everything qnd I mean EVERYTHING goes right for the Conservatives from here on out