Just got back from Voting....

[Toma]

is that shady or what? lol

cardboard "screen" with cardboard boxes lol.... hardly look tamper proof to me Then they handle your card after you check it, then they give it back to you to put into said cardboard box??

LOL, a good magician would have a hay day

And I kinda expected some security.... like a cop lol...

interesting anyway

[bspot]

Happy 18th birthday.

[habsfan]

yea i was thinking that too, same setup over here. flimsy ass little cardboard box, and then they take your vote, rips some strip off of it, then give it back to you. i was expecting a slightly more private cubicle, and definitely wasnt expecting them to handle your vote before you put it in the box. found that interesting as well.

[retro-steve]

how do you think the votes are counted? by computer? a lot more people than that are going to handle your vote when the counting goes on. i found the process fine.

[Toma]

Originally posted by bspot
Happy 18th birthday.

35th coming up....

[retro-steve]

Originally posted by Toma


35th coming up....

and you're just commenting on our voting system now???

[bspot]

Originally posted by Toma


35th coming up....

I mean 18 x 2

Colour me confused though... isn't that how the polling stations are always set up?

[l8braker]

[habsfan]

that was my first time voting, so i have a reason to not know how it's normally set up lol

[Toma]

LOL... I have no idea.... only voted once before, and maybe I just dont remember what it was for....

Just seemed so low tech/low security given the world today....

[retro-steve]

Originally posted by Toma
LOL... I have no idea.... only voted once before, and maybe I just dont remember what it was for....

Just seemed so low tech/low security given the world today....

you've only voted once before? oh man that explains A LOT about every other political post you've ever made!! you're 35 and this is your second time voting? Oh Canada!!

[sputnik]

Originally posted by Toma
LOL... I have no idea.... only voted once before, and maybe I just dont remember what it was for....

Just seemed so low tech/low security given the world today....

You are 35 and you cant even remember when you voted last? I would think for someone so politically opinionated you would be more aware and active in the local political arenas.

Aside from that fact, what did you expect an armed guard ready to shoot the electoral terrorists?

[Ajay]

I just came back from voting too and I dunno if it's just the time of day but there weren't very many people at this particular voting station. Convenient for me cause it's RIGHT beside my house!

I've voted in almost every election (provincial, municipal, federal) pretty much as soon as I turned 18 and I found nothing wrong with this process at all. I thought it was a little different when the dude took my ballot back and ripped the barcode off and gave it back to me to put in the ballot box. Also noticed that the baggie he put my barcode in wasn't really in a very secure place so you never know when it comes to tampering I guess.

[retro-steve]

the barcode is only to determine how many valid ballots are out there

[Toma]

Originally posted by Ajay
I just came back from voting too and I dunno if it's just the time of day but there weren't very many people at this particular voting station. Convenient for me cause it's RIGHT beside my house!

I've voted in almost every election (provincial, municipal, federal) pretty much as soon as I turned 18 and I found nothing wrong with this process at all. I thought it was a little different when the dude took my ballot back and ripped the barcode off and gave it back to me to put in the ballot box. Also noticed that the baggie he put my barcode in wasn't really in a very secure place so you never know when it comes to tampering I guess.

Yep.... same with me.... I only went cause its exactly on my way to Mcdonalds for lunch (Mount Pleasant Community Centre) lol, absolutely no one else was there. I imagine they are busye morning before work, and after 5:00 pm

They never even had any sign indicating it was a voting station...

Last time I went, I recall it being at some school....

[jdmakkord]

Originally posted by sputnik




You are 35 and you cant even remember when you voted last? I would think for someone so politically opinionated you would be more aware and active in the local political arenas.

Aside from that fact, what did you expect an armed guard ready to shoot the electoral terrorists?

Seeing as Toma hasn't even spent half of his 35 years living in Canada, that doesn't really mean much.

[retro-steve]

Originally posted by jdmakkord


Seeing as Toma hasn't even spent half of his 35 years living in Canada, that doesn't really mean much.

even more of a reason to disreguard all of his political opinions

[sputnik]

Originally posted by retro-steve
the barcode is only to determine how many valid ballots are out there

The barcode is only to prevent counterfeit ballots. The barcode is then thrown away so that no one can accuse Elections Canada of tracking who voted for who.

[Toma]

Originally posted by jdmakkord


Seeing as Toma hasn't even spent half of his 35 years living in Canada, that doesn't really mean much.

LOL....yes I have.... made it here when I was 7

Voting in Alberta is basically a waste of time.... the conservatives could adopt a nazi schwaztika as their symbol and they would still win here lol...

[Toma]

Originally posted by retro-steve


even more of a reason to disreguard all of his political opinions

Why? You afraid of someone with an education AND life experience here and abroad forming an opinion?