You start with empty ballots and the electoral list. You record every ballot that's used (or damaged) and every voter that shows up and casts a vote. You end up with a paper trail of everything that happened as well as every ballot.
Every bit of the process is done by two employees+a polling station supervisor+party representatives (volunteers) making sure everything is done by the book. Everything should balance if there hasn't been fraud or mistakes. Counted ballots go in respective envelopes (for box 57 you'll have a liberal party, conservative party, green party, npd, invalid ballot, etc. envelop) allowing for swift recounting and making sure valid ballots for the right party are in every envelop.
Funny story from last night: the Conservative leader’s own riding had the longest ballot in Canadian history — 90 candidates! Even though it was one of the earlier ridings to close, the results weren’t confirmed until this morning. I’m guessing the sheer size of the ballot had something to do with the delay.
What’s the reason people vote for those outcomes?
I know trump played a role, but it’s hard to believe that he reversed the outcome so drastically.
I think the conservatives in Canada don’t have strong leaders. You couldn’t have a better hand.
Lower oil prices might have contributed, but only to an extent.
Conservatives leadership in Canada is weak. PP is just not sufficiently smart and capable for this position, listening to some of his speeches.
He was talking about annexing the country! His post on election day was full on syphillitic mad-king stuff, asking Canada to vote for him!
I could go on, a long list of stuff that would have been considered implausible in a comic book satire only a few years ago.
It seems illogical that people vote for liberals in response to Trump’s remarks. That will worsen the situation. A more politically aligned government might better manage it.
In some sense the conservatives were effective at changing the narrative, they just weren't rewarded for it with the opportunity to form government.
I wanted change—but the choice was between someone who ignores the cost of living crisis and someone who would actively make everything worse. Poilievre couldn’t even pass a security clearance. I didn’t support all of Trudeau’s policies, but Carney isn’t Trudeau—and pretending they’re interchangeable is just lazy politics.
> Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has lost his seat in Carleton, Ontario, according to projections by CBC/Radio-Canada, after his party lost the general election.
afinlayson•9mo ago
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