Here are the election results for the August 18 by-election in Alberta, Canada. Because 214 candidates qualified, the elections office decided to print blank ballots, so that all votes were write-in votes. Each polling place had a list of all the qualified candidates.
Only seventeen candidates got as many as ten votes.
The reason there were so many candidates is that a group deliberately recruited as many candidates as possible, to protest the failure of the Canadian government to switch to some form of proportional representation, after decades of agitation. Canadian House of Commons candidates need 100 signatures, plus a filing fee of $1,000.
Here is a picture of the write-in ballot.
What a waste of time by retards.
Write in votes could be handled better if every write in candidate registered with the election office, and was given a numeric code that the voter could enter into boxes provided on the return for such write in candidates.
Love the folks who got ZERO votes.
what pct of ballots with wrong name spellings ???
How severe will ballot access laws now become in minority rule gerrymander Canada ???
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There would be no need for write in candidates if elections were held by standing count, or even by voice vote.
There would also be no need for ballot access signatures or filing fees, no printing costs, and no need for anyone to try to read anyone else’s handwriting, or for that matter to learn to read and write in any fashion.
More and more people are barely learning the ABCs, or not learning them at all, among the younger generations. The percentage of functionally or actually illiterate people will will grow faster and faster until 2-3 generations from now only a vanishingly tiny fraction of the population will learn to spell/cast spells.
People with dyslexia, shaky hands, and various other problems might even be able to vote, if we want them to. Currently, it’s way too difficult.
And before the trolls start in: It’s possible to have alternatives for people who can’t stand or speak if we still want such people to vote. I don’t, but that’s an entirely separate part of my proposal.
It seems to me that most folks who are functionally illiterate usually don’t bother to vote now, and are unlikely to vote in any sort of election. it’s a kind of self-disqualification.
In many cases, that’s why they don’t vote. Since their numbers are growing ever faster, we need to bring back voice vote or better yet standing count. It also saves paper while being much more secure than electronic voting.