Canadian Voters in August 18 Special Parliamentary Election Will be Given Blank Ballots, and Must Write-in Their Choice

Canada holds a special parliamentary election on August 18 in the Battle River-Crowfoot riding in Alberta. Election officials have decided to issue blank ballots to all voters, and the voter must cast a write-in vote. Each voter will be furnished with an alphabetized list of the candidates. The write-in ballot decision was made because there are 214 candidates. The reason there are so many candidates is that a group that supports proportional representation organized the mass filing as a protest against the winner-take-all system.

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Canadian Voters in August 18 Special Parliamentary Election Will be Given Blank Ballots, and Must Write-in Their Choice — 10 Comments

  1. Will winner get 5 pct of all votes ???

    NOOO MO special elections for legislative bodies

    candidate/incumbent replacement lists

  2. The AZ spambot is the one with dementia. It thinks Wisconsin and Missouri has an influence in this election.

  3. NOOO candidate/incumbent replacement lists. At will replacement with or without the officeholder’s consent by the winning party.

  4. Richard: If Canada operated under the same filing rules the U.K. uses (moderate filing fee returned for getting 5% or more of vote), do you think that more than 20 of those “protest” voters would have filed for the riding?

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