FifteenPercentTurnoutIsHigh?
WhoKnewVille
There was a by-election in the City of Vancouver on Saturday for two vacated councillor seats.
The results were very clearly progressive as Sean Orr of COPE and Lucy Maloney of One City won going away, garnering twice as many votes as the next candidate on the ladder, Colleen Hardwick of TEAM.
Of course, this is being viewed as a repudiation of Mr. Sims and his ABC colleagues by the CorpMedia coverage, such as it is.
Doubly interestingly, it looks like it was actually tenants flexing their muscle as the rights of those folks were a big part of both Mr. Orr's and Ms. Maloney's campaign.
Interestingly, it does not appear to have been a vote against the Broadway plan because, if it had been, Ms. Hardwick and her running mate from Team, Mr. Abbott would have done much better.
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The turnout was higher than expected which resulted in long lines at polling stations across the city...In our family of four everyone, all of whom voted separately at different stations, had to wait more than an hour...The underestimation of the number of polling stations and polling staff required led to a public apology from the city manager...Despite all that, I'm happy to report that the staff at the Kensington Community Ctr. processed us very quickly, efficiently and good-naturedly late in the afternoon on Saturday, nine hours into the process (which, given the volume meant they must have been absolutely exhausted when the polls finally closed at 8 pm).
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WhoKnewVille
There was a by-election in the City of Vancouver on Saturday for two vacated councillor seats.
The results were very clearly progressive as Sean Orr of COPE and Lucy Maloney of One City won going away, garnering twice as many votes as the next candidate on the ladder, Colleen Hardwick of TEAM.
Of course, this is being viewed as a repudiation of Mr. Sims and his ABC colleagues by the CorpMedia coverage, such as it is.
Doubly interestingly, it looks like it was actually tenants flexing their muscle as the rights of those folks were a big part of both Mr. Orr's and Ms. Maloney's campaign.
Interestingly, it does not appear to have been a vote against the Broadway plan because, if it had been, Ms. Hardwick and her running mate from Team, Mr. Abbott would have done much better.
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The turnout was higher than expected which resulted in long lines at polling stations across the city...In our family of four everyone, all of whom voted separately at different stations, had to wait more than an hour...The underestimation of the number of polling stations and polling staff required led to a public apology from the city manager...Despite all that, I'm happy to report that the staff at the Kensington Community Ctr. processed us very quickly, efficiently and good-naturedly late in the afternoon on Saturday, nine hours into the process (which, given the volume meant they must have been absolutely exhausted when the polls finally closed at 8 pm).
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