• the Canadian federal election

    From August Abolins@2:460/256 to All on Sun Sep 12 21:05:47 2021
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    [Originally posted in CANACHAT echo]

    So.. whatcha y'all thinking about the advance call for another federal election?

    I voted in the advance polls yesterday. I noticed a couple of things quite different.

    [1] the ballot actually mentioned the party for each candidate. I always wondered why they never had that in the past. As a result, I think I ended up voting for the wrong candidate the very first time I was old enough to vote.

    [2] covid theatre was in full force. Free masks were available. Hand sanitation was required. They even required that I "sign" (including my telephone number)
    a registry. I actually had to pause as I realized that I forgot my own phone number for a moment. :D The problem with the registry is that it failed to provide a record WHEN my visit occurred. I mean.. there was no date or TIME column. But the venue was empty. Gee.. I hope that I don't get a call to tell me that my health may have been compromised. LOL The "workers" were all at their stations, and I was the only active voter in the facility during my 3 minute visit.

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  • From Erich B.@1:153/757.2 to August Abolins on Thu Sep 16 08:00:03 2021
    Hi All,
    ...Greets from my Telegram app!

    [Originally posted in CANACHAT echo]

    So.. whatcha y'all thinking about the advance call for another federal election?

    I voted in the advance polls yesterday. I noticed a couple of things quite different.

    [1] the ballot actually mentioned the party for each candidate. I always wondered why they never had that in the past. As a result, I think I ended up voting for the wrong candidate the very first time I was old enough to vote.

    [2] covid theatre was in full force. Free masks were available. Hand sanitation was required. They even required that I "sign" (including my telephone number)
    a registry. I actually had to pause as I realized that I forgot my own phone number for a moment. :D The problem with the registry is that it failed to provide a record WHEN my visit occurred. I mean.. there was no date or TIME column. But the venue was empty. Gee.. I hope that I don't get a call to tell me that my health may have been compromised. LOL The "workers" were all at their stations, and I was the only active voter in the facility during my 3 minute visit.

    Ciao!
    /|ug (https://t.me/aabolins)

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    Boy are the numbers ever close. It's been like that through the whole election.

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  • From August Abolins@1:153/757.21 to Erich B. on Thu Sep 16 18:37:00 2021
    Hello Erich B.!

    ** On Thursday 16.09.21 - 08:00, Erich B. wrote to August Abolins:

    [Originally posted in CANACHAT echo]

    So.. whatcha y'all thinking about the advance call for
    another federal election?

    [...]

    Boy are the numbers ever close. It's been like that
    through the whole election.

    You mean the pre-polls? Ipsos(tm)?

    Those numbers aren't always accurate. What they might do is
    influence people to sway their votes. When a certain report
    says Candidate A is leading, then people might be convinced to
    either continue to vote that way, or vote to try and change
    things and vote for Candidate B, C or D.

    I don't participate when survey-people call. Why do people
    even bother? What an intrusive activity.
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  • From Erich B.@1:153/757.2 to August Abolins on Thu Sep 16 18:29:14 2021

    Hello Erich B.!

    ** On Thursday 16.09.21 - 08:00, Erich B. wrote to August Abolins:

    [...]

    You mean the pre-polls? Ipsos(tm)?

    Those numbers aren't always accurate. What they might do is
    influence people to sway their votes. When a certain report
    says Candidate A is leading, then people might be convinced to
    either continue to vote that way, or vote to try and change
    things and vote for Candidate B, C or D.

    I don't participate when survey-people call. Why do people
    even bother? What an intrusive activity.
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    No. Nanos Polling:

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/federal-election-2021/liberals-and-conservative s-tangled-in-a-tie-in-the-final-days-of-campaign-nanos-1.5587633

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  • From Jay Harris@1:229/664 to All on Thu Sep 16 21:40:53 2021
    On 16 Sep 2021, Erich B. said the following...

    You mean the pre-polls? Ipsos(tm)?

    No. Nanos Polling:

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/federal-election-2021/liberals-and-conserv s-tangled-in-a-tie-in-the-final-days-of-campaign-nanos-1.5587633

    I like peeking at this one from time-to-time, they compile several of the polls into one easy-to-read chart:

    https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/poll-tracker/canada/

    At time of writing this message it seems we're just as divided as our neighbours to the south were during their most recent election:

    Liberal: 31.7%
    Conservative: 31.2%
    New Democrat: 20.1%
    Bloc Quebecois: 6.4%
    People's Party: 6.2%
    Green: 3.3%
    Other: 1.1%


    Jay

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  • From August Abolins@1:153/757.21 to Jay Harris on Fri Sep 17 20:53:00 2021
    Hello Jay Harris!

    ** On Thursday 16.09.21 - 21:40, Jay Harris wrote to All:

    I like peeking at this one from time-to-time, they compile
    several of the polls into one easy-to-read chart:

    https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/poll-tracker/canada/

    The numbers haven't changed much since then, although it's been
    only a day.

    Meanwhile the political ads on OTA TV are quite repetitive but
    not as annoying as the incessant OLG commercials!

    Maybe you can post a daily result (via script) from that page
    until election night?
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  • From Erich B.@1:153/757.2 to August Abolins on Sun Sep 19 19:55:42 2021

    Hello Jay Harris!

    ** On Thursday 16.09.21 - 21:40, Jay Harris wrote to All:

    The numbers haven't changed much since then, although it's been
    only a day.

    Meanwhile the political ads on OTA TV are quite repetitive but
    not as annoying as the incessant OLG commercials!

    Maybe you can post a daily result (via script) from that page
    until election night?
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    Well tomorrow's the big day! I hope it's not disappointing results. :-(

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  • From August Abolins@2:221/6 to Erich B. on Mon Sep 20 06:29:46 2021
    On 9/19/2021 12:55 PM, between "Erich B. - August Abolins":

    The numbers haven't changed much since then, although it's been
    only a day.

    Well tomorrow's the big day! I hope it's not disappointing results. :-(


    Results (or rather conclusive predictive results) ought to be available later that same night. Only about 1 million votes are by mail which will only be fully counted 2 days later, but those won't be too relevant to be sway votes.
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  • From Erich B.@1:153/757.2 to August Abolins on Tue Sep 21 07:21:38 2021

    On 9/19/2021 12:55 PM, between "Erich B. - August Abolins":

    Results (or rather conclusive predictive results) ought to be available later that same night. Only about 1 million votes are by mail which will only be fully counted 2 days later, but those won't be too relevant to be sway votes.

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    We ended up with another Liberal minority government anyways. What a waste of a $610 million election.

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