tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post714721452325312746..comments2024-03-27T01:58:22.445-07:00Comments on The Gazetteer: Strange Rumblings In Far West Lotusland: Scrutineers Or...RossKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07677239332112652522noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-88480617876850235972013-04-23T23:34:01.280-07:002013-04-23T23:34:01.280-07:00Your friendly local District Electoral Office is h...Your friendly local District Electoral Office is happy to help you vote any time (9-5,Mon-Fri) after the writ is dropped up until 4pm election day. You don't need to declare you'll be absent from the riding during advance voting or anything like that (though I volunteered that I was volunteering for one of the candidates). No line up, no scrutineers, no rent-a-cop security guards challenging my right to vote, just me, my ID and an opportunity to exercise my franchise. Voting the way it should be - I highly recommend the experience.<br />And so back down to Denman Street to help re-elect the snazziest dresser (and all around great guy) in the Ledge!<br />http://thetyee.ca/News/2009/05/06/SpencerHerbert/macadavyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12389495369365209004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-75500954635276393622013-04-23T21:19:39.220-07:002013-04-23T21:19:39.220-07:00Yeah, but that's not a bet I'd take, Ross....Yeah, but that's not a bet I'd take, Ross. <br /><br />That's certainly one possibility but the problem is that Sun is unlikely to achieve their treasured mandatory status and Clark is nothing if not a slut for attention. <br /><br />I suspect she's more likely to end up on Global or CTV. <br /><br />Once you get past the gasping rhetoric there's not a cigarette papers difference between the three. <br /><br />Anyone thinking my use of the word 'slut' derogates women is right. Baird, Harper and company are attention sluts too and that derogates men, of which I am one. <br /><br />Live with it. Danahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12465953801145126160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-18635887271704351062013-04-23T20:02:26.423-07:002013-04-23T20:02:26.423-07:00Dana (at the very top)--
Well.
Perhaps we should...Dana (at the very top)--<br /><br />Well.<br /><br />Perhaps we should start a pool re: future prospects on, say, July 1st.<br /><br />Personally, I'd be willing to take anything above 9 to 5 on Ms. Clark become the new Westcoast bureau chief for the Sun News Network...<br /><br />.RossKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07677239332112652522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-51798815854558454672013-04-23T20:00:36.155-07:002013-04-23T20:00:36.155-07:00Thanks James.
.Thanks James.<br /><br />.RossKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07677239332112652522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-7380928535442235232013-04-23T19:33:38.767-07:002013-04-23T19:33:38.767-07:00Ross - error in my original post up board here - d...Ross - error in my original post up board here - damn portable devices - should have been April 15...not 13 when we did out little vote thing. James Kingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-86832340965698993362013-04-23T17:37:13.807-07:002013-04-23T17:37:13.807-07:00Thanks JK--
Important comparison...And I would be...Thanks JK--<br /><br />Important comparison...And I would be willing to take pretty short odds that any Point Grey resident that went to that office to vote absentee, say, earlier the same day (or the following day would have had a similar experience to yours)<br /><br />______<br />Anon-2-Above<br /><br />I hear your snark.<br /><br />But, again, the kid in the VSun story did EXACTLY what E-BC says she should have done.<br /><br />_____<br /><br />Anon-Above--<br /><br />I think because the actual advance polls don't happen until a few days before May 14th...If you want to vote absentee (because you will be away on May 14th, as it the case with so many Univ. students in residence - they are all finishing and leaving for the summer in the next week or so) all you have to do is go to the district E-BC electoral office in your riding during regular business hours any day.<br /><br />Addresses of individual district offices can be found<a href="http://www.elections.bc.ca/index.php/about/district-electoral-officers/" rel="nofollow">....here.</a><br /><br />.RossKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07677239332112652522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-54425426780234543902013-04-23T17:27:47.917-07:002013-04-23T17:27:47.917-07:00WHY doesn't Elections BC have a list of advanc...WHY doesn't Elections BC have a list of advance polls on their front page<b>?</b>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-8895168857522994382013-04-23T16:10:29.255-07:002013-04-23T16:10:29.255-07:00Couldn't an UBC student produce a pill box?
M...Couldn't an UBC student produce a pill box?<br /><br />My wife and I, who are seniors, intend to produce our pill box when we vote. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-70000578200607763132013-04-23T14:26:38.562-07:002013-04-23T14:26:38.562-07:00Just as a bit of a contrast let me tell you about ...Just as a bit of a contrast let me tell you about the experience my wife and I had when we went to vote on April 13 here in Victoria. We're going to be out of the province from April 30 till May 29 and there's no way we wanted to miss the fun. Naturally, we had no documentation from Elections BC with our name and address on it since that stuff hasn't even been printed yet. We each showed our driving license and then signed a declaration that we lived in the riding and had been living there for the past 3 months and that was all there was to it. <br /><br />The electoral officer gave each of us a ballot, we filled in the name of the candidate we wanted to vote for (ballots aren't printed yet) and were told all we really HAD to do was write in the name of the party if we weren't aware of who the candidates were.<br /><br />It couldn't have been easier and the experience for those UBC students should have been equally painless.<br /><br />There were NO SCRUTINEERS of any kind in the office - as you'd expect.James Kingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-38013181243529320642013-04-23T12:33:45.758-07:002013-04-23T12:33:45.758-07:00More specifics on the kids' facebook page.
.More specifics on the kids' <a href="https://www.facebook.com/UBCNDP" rel="nofollow">facebook page.</a><br /><br />.RossKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07677239332112652522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-61203502205898812342013-04-23T12:01:49.968-07:002013-04-23T12:01:49.968-07:00OK, got it now, I think...
Apparently, the studen...OK, got it now, I think...<br /><br />Apparently, the students met at the bus loop on campus last Wednesday (ie. they weren't voting there) and then took the bus down Broadway to the Elections BC district/riding office where anyone who will be absent from the riding on voting day can, indeed, vote in advance (this is often the case with students who live in residence)..<br /><br />Thus, it was not a special advance poll set up by the district E-BC officer but instead was something that can happen during regular business hours any day during the writ period.<br /><br />Now.<br /><br />If this is truly what occurred, I actually find this even more interesting because it suggests that the fine folks who were doing the 'scrutinizing', who E-BC spokesperson Don Main confirmed to the VSun reporter were acting on behalf of the CClark campaign, either hangout at the district electoral office all day, every day...<br /><br />Or.<br /><br />Well...<br /><br />You know...<br /><br />.RossKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07677239332112652522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-64862499510044082632013-04-23T11:14:25.524-07:002013-04-23T11:14:25.524-07:00Here's what Ms. McKnight's story says, spe...Here's what Ms. McKnight's story says, specifically...<br /><br /><i>"A get-out-the-vote campaign sponsored by the New Democratic Party of B.C. brought about a dozen students by bus to the Elections B.C. district office on West Broadway last Wednesday in the riding of Vancouver-Point Grey to vote to cast advance ballots.<br /><br />But when fourth-year geography and political science student Quinn Runkle tried to use a printout of her university account proving she lives in Acadia House on UBC campus, her residency credentials were challenged by Liberal party members acting as “candidate representatives.”<br /><br />Runkle, who originally hails from the Sunshine Coast, eventually voted, but “in their minds I had insufficient documentation,” she said."</i><br /><br />I understand Anon-2-Above's point but Anon-Directly Above's pdf gives the registration drive sites as being open back in March....This must have taken place last week as it was during Olivia Chow's visit, according to the VSunstory. <br /><br />Could this have been a special poll that district election officers are allowed to set up for voters who will likely not be in the riding on general election day?<br /><br />I've asked for clarification from Mr. Eby re: voting or registering...<br /><br />There was, however, also a tweet from Mr. Eby about a <a href="https://twitter.com/Dave_Eby/status/324594490809651200" rel="nofollow">separate advance poll at the UBC bus loop on Apr 17th...</a> which suggests that there were special advance polls happening last week.<br /><br /><br />.RossKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07677239332112652522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-77556096319085796642013-04-23T10:46:05.587-07:002013-04-23T10:46:05.587-07:00Hmmmm...
Ms. McKnight's story clearly states ...Hmmmm...<br /><br />Ms. McKnight's story clearly states that the kids were voting.<br /><br />Let me check...<br /><br />.RossKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07677239332112652522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-43431633763933545482013-04-23T09:01:58.431-07:002013-04-23T09:01:58.431-07:00Yes it was registration, not voting: .PDF
http://...Yes it was registration, not voting: .PDF<br /><br />http://www.elections.bc.ca/docs/reg/enum13/VNP_ED.pdf<br /><br />Either way it's still scummy.<br /><br />Christy Clark has a long and well documented history of vote tampering.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-77789347654130422852013-04-23T08:52:35.317-07:002013-04-23T08:52:35.317-07:00Advance voting opportunities for an electoral dist...Advance voting opportunities for an electoral district<br /><br />76 (1) Advance voting opportunities must be held on the Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday of the week before general voting day for an election.<br /><br />(2) As soon as reasonably possible after an election is called for an electoral district, the district electoral officer must establish one or more voting places for advance voting opportunities such that voters in different parts of the electoral district have a reasonable opportunity to attend at least one advance voting opportunity.<br /><br />(3) The voting hours for an advance voting opportunity are from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on each day referred to in subsection (1).<br />http://www.bclaws.ca/EPLibraries/bclaws_new/document/LOC/freeside/--%20E%20--/Election%20Act%20RSBC%201996%20c.%20106/00_Act/96106_06.xml#section76<br /><br />Advance voting (8 a.m. to 8 p.m.) May 8-11<br />http://www.elections.bc.ca/ge2013/#importantDates<br /><br /><i>Might it be that the students were not voting, but registering?</i>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229885.post-37046195958922286022013-04-23T08:41:46.476-07:002013-04-23T08:41:46.476-07:00I wish for very little in life now but I wish with...I wish for very little in life now but I wish with all my heart that this abominable Clark woman vanish from the airwaves and from my perceptions after May 15. Danahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12465953801145126160noreply@blogger.com