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Calgary Municipal Politics

Which mayoral candidate do you intend to vote for in 2021?

  • Jeremy Farkas

    Votes: 8 25.8%

  • Jyoti Gondek

    Votes: 9 29.0%

  • Sonya Sharp

    Votes: 3 9.7%

  • Jeff Davison

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Brian Thiessen

    Votes: 8 25.8%

  • Other

    Votes: 3 9.7%
  • Total voters
    31
I think everyone had to sign the form.

There was also nothing stopping someone from voting twice. I'm not sure what the audit process is but from what I saw you could've voted in the advanced vote and then voted again on election day. With fives tables of voter rolls at my voting location there is no way they would take the time to go through them and make sure Bill Smith wasn't crossed off twice. Even if they did, at each poll, you could vote city-wide in advanced polls so that means that every single vote would need to be scrutinized.

It is pretty plain to see how flawed this voting method was. Suppressing the vote doesn't just affect the people who don't share your values it also affects the people who do.
 
CalgaryTiger said:
I think everyone had to sign the form.

There was also nothing stopping someone from voting twice. I'm not sure what the audit process is but from what I saw you could've voted in the advanced vote and then voted again on election day. With fives tables of voter rolls at my voting location there is no way they would take the time to go through them and make sure Bill Smith wasn't crossed off twice. Even if they did, at each poll, you could vote city-wide in advanced polls so that means that every single vote would need to be scrutinized.

It is pretty plain to see how flawed this voting method was. Suppressing the vote doesn't just affect the people who don't share your values it also affects the people who do.
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The rolls will be compilled into a 'Calgary Voters List' which the city is now legally obligated to keep. If someone voted twice they will then be charged.
 
darwink said:
The rolls will be compilled into a 'Calgary Voters List' which the city is now legally obligated to keep. If someone voted twice they will then be charged.
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I think you actually can vote twice, if you voted in the advanced polls and on election day, it would just be your later ballot that would be the one that counts. I recall reading something like that.
 
CalgaryTiger said:
I think you actually can vote twice, if you voted in the advanced polls and on election day, it would just be your later ballot that would be the one that counts. I recall reading something like that.
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It depends if the advance vote was into a ballot box, or a special ballot sealed in an envelope where the envelope is individually identifiable.
 
I held my nose and voted Farkas. I’m not sure a tiger can change its stripes, but frankly, I didn’t want Sharp to win (I reject party politics at the municipal level). I think Farkas will have to take a different approach to being a mayor than he did as a councillor, because he’s actually going to have to build some consensus and not just vote “No” on everything. That said, the next council might benefit from a few more “No” votes this time around.

I also voted for Nathaniel Schmidt, after reviewing all of the candidates’ websites and watching debate videos. I couldn’t find much of a difference between the positions of the other candidates.
 
trtcttc said:
For councilor results, I'm seeing like 17/72 polls reporting. But the vote count is already about 3/5 of 2021.
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I think we've seen all of the election day votes counted now. Then each of the advance polling stations seems to count as it's own poll for every single ward. So of the 55 remaining stations in your example, most will have very few votes, while the 5-10 in closes proximity to a given ward will have more.
 
Assuming Nowak wins I see 6 unknown but probably progressives, plus Dhaliwal (generally seemed to vote progressively, but also did not quite oftent?)

Then there's 6 fairly obvious conservatives (including Wyness who seemed like the inverse of Dhaliwal, but I'm happy to be corrected on either point).

And then ward 12 which could go either way...but either way it looks likely we'll see a lot of 8-6 and 7-7 votes among the councillors, so Jeromy's vote is going to be pretty pivotal.
 
lemongrab said:
Assuming Nowak wins I see 6 unknown but probably progressives, plus Dhaliwal (generally seemed to vote progressively, but also did not quite oftent?)

Then there's 6 fairly obvious conservatives (including Wyness who seemed like the inverse of Dhaliwal, but I'm happy to be corrected on either point).

And then ward 12 which could go either way...but either way it looks likely we'll see a lot of 8-6 and 7-7 votes among the councillors, so Jeromy's vote is going to be pretty pivotal.
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By my glance at who's ahead my count of progressive and conservative councilors looks like...

Progressive Ward Councilour: 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 12.

Conservative Ward Councilour: 2, 6, 10, 11, 13, 14.

So, 8-6, as you say.
 
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