Just one polling place in one riding, but it has been pretty quiet so far.#bcpoli #bcelxn2024
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸replied to Laffy last edited by [email protected]
@GottaLaff sorry you got me just as I was leaving my shift
They are generally in community centres and gathering places like that. Polls close at 8PM. Because we are using a brand new ballot that is counted with a bubble counter rather than hand counted (unless there is a recount), apparently they expect preliminary results to come very quickly. Within 2hrs or even 1hr. -
KimberlyNreplied to Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 last edited by
Ontario has been using vote counters in the past few elections, and the results come in very quickly! Usually within about an hour [max] after polls close — so by 9 pm we know the results. Sometimes ridings that are super close are recounted before official results are released, but that doesn’t usually change much.
Beautiful B.C., we are all hoping you cast your vote thoughtfully!
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸replied to KimberlyN last edited by
@KimberlyN @GottaLaff wow! Ya I am very interested to see how fast the results come. I was thinking about being a scrutineer tonight to see the process and compare it to hand counted, but I’ll do that next time. This time I want to be fully into the suspense of the results as a whole!
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KimberlyNreplied to Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 last edited by
The first time DoFo was elected was (I think) the first time the vote counters were used. It was the result we dreaded, but it certainly happened fast. We were all used to staying up ‘til midnight or so.
FWIW, I think the NDP are going to hang on to their majority tonight, but I’m keeping my fingers and toes crossed for all of you. [From someone who’s lived with a ridiculous amount of corruption under DoFo for two terms…🤨]
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@GottaLaff @chris mine is the local elementary school. Sometimes churches/public spaces.
Results this year should come in an hour cuz we have an automated counter system now.
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Curvas Peligrosas ✅bonafidereplied to Curvas Peligrosas ✅bonafide last edited by
Because my partner did not grow up on the coast, they have classified many types of rain.
I just roll my eyes and get wet.
️ #atmosphericriverEven in your #caturday pyjamas, please get out and #vote #BCElxn2024 #bcpoli
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Glad my new location (ON) is up to the 1990s. Most of the US jurisdictions I've lived in had machine counted ballots by the early 2000s. But then, ballots in Canada are so simple.
See p.1 of my most recent absentee ballot from OK (I am a dual nat):
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Jean-Francois Mezeireplied to Harris✔︎ Trump💩 last edited by
@VE2UWY @KimberlyN @chris @GottaLaff Pardon my ignorace here, but why are there a bunch of names below the names o f president/VP candidates? And why would voting for Harris, include automatic vote for a bunch of people you may not agree with?
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸replied to Jean-Francois Mezei last edited by
@jfmezei @VE2UWY @KimberlyN @GottaLaff I believe those are the "state electors" assigned to the candidates for the Electoral College? Worst system ever!!
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@GottaLaff @emd np!
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Harris✔︎ Trump💩replied to Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 last edited by
@chris @jfmezei @KimberlyN @GottaLaff
Correct. No one in the US votes for president/vice-president except the Electors. They aren't free to vote for whoever, tho', as most states require them to reflect the will of the people.
Occasionally, there are faithless electors, in which case lawyers get rich.
Recall that this is a remnant of a system that made complete sense at the end of the 18th C/beginning of the 19th C ... which was changed in 1804 (see 12th Amendment).
