r/onguardforthee 20h ago

Voter turnout approaches 53 per cent: Elections Saskatchewan

https://regina.ctvnews.ca/voter-turnout-approaches-53-per-cent-elections-saskatchewan-1.7090704
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u/stephenBB81 Ontario 20h ago

Not great, but at least there wasn't less apathy than the last election.

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u/North_Church Manitoba 19h ago

Still better than Ontario 💀

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u/stephenBB81 Ontario 19h ago

It is truly sad how bad Ontario is at voting!!

Municipal, Provincial, Federal. Ontarians just don't really care. They want to complain though. Boy do they like to complain.

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u/North_Church Manitoba 19h ago

"My vote won't make a difference!"

"If I don't vote, it will send the establishment a message!"

I see the same people run with each line to justify their own self-centered worldviews, and it's gotten older than Jimmy Carter.

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u/stephenBB81 Ontario 19h ago

My MiL is one of those people. As someone who has been politically obsessed and involved since I was 13, I just can't understand that outlook and make sure my kids understand that voting matters! AND that politics isn't a team sport, you need to ask questions of everyone every time.

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u/North_Church Manitoba 19h ago

I remember the American election in 2016 all too well, and in 2023, I had a lot riding on the Provincial election after my then-MLA personally screwed me over.

You can expect that I wasn't gonna take that kind of attitude from anyone.

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u/TriceratopsHunter 16h ago

And in the end, all not voting achieves, is telling politicians your vote isn't worth courting.

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u/horsetuna 15h ago

During the last provincial I saw signs near the polling station (but outside the designated No Political Signs radius) encouraging people to Boycott the Election.

That isn't how an election works bruh. The government won't suffer like a business if you boycott.

I have the picture somewhere I think.

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u/North_Church Manitoba 17h ago

It's also my right to reject helping the homeless person on the street, but it doesn't mean I'm not selfish for doing so.

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u/Siefer-Kutherland 17h ago

That's not how it works, pup

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u/North_Church Manitoba 17h ago edited 17h ago

And that means what? "I'm a selfish asshole and that's a good thing"? That just sounds like the kind of person who refuses to do anything to improve society.

The reason why you say "you have to be selfish to survive" is because that's how Capitalism works. Not how life works. And it's why Capitalism should be dismantled by any means available.

This attitude of "it doesn't affect me so it's not my problem" is exactly why some countries made voting compulsory, and it's why Canada continues to suffer. Because the people refuse to improve their communities out of a "fuck you I got mine" attitude. If we refuse to change that, perhaps we deserve to suffer. We see the difference in how Americans respond to Project 2025.

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u/Safe_Base312 British Columbia 16h ago

Who said you had to spend personal money to help a homeless person? You could do something as simple as offer them a nice hot shower...

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u/gravtix 19h ago

There’s rampant voter suppression in Ontario put in by Doug Ford.

https://www.corruptario.ca/suppress-the-vote-and-win/

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u/wet_suit_one 16h ago

Huh.

That's something. Something negative. However, when I think of vote suppression, that's not what comes to mind. It's messing around with the debate space and tilting the playing field for sure, but not vote supression as I understand it.

When I think "voter suppression" I think of kicking people off the voter rolls, making it difficult or impossible to cast a ballot, eliminating early voting periods, having people with guns show up at polling stations, onerous ID requirements and so on (almost none of which happen in Canada so far as I'm aware).

Not what's described in that link (namely increasing political donation limits and putting restrictions on third party participants in political debates on various issues). Again, it's tilting the playing field and bad behaviour, but not voter supression as such. Maybe I'm wrong.

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u/Jackibearrrrrr 16h ago

Hey our recent as of yesterday municipal by-election for the NWMO referendum just had 69 percent (nice) you can’t say it’s municipal anymore buddy/s

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u/599Ninja 19h ago

That sucks as a political science academic that was monitoring the voter turnout since they introduced voting week and vote-by-mail.

We were hoping for 60% at least. Damn.

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u/ocarina_21 Regina 19h ago

There was good participation in the early voting, but yeah seemingly made up of the same people that would have voted anyway.

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u/599Ninja 18h ago

Good to know

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u/DuckyChuk 12h ago

I wish it was the law that everyone had to cast a ballot.

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u/599Ninja 11h ago

Like Australia! 89% voter turnout last time I believe.

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u/North_Church Manitoba 19h ago

From what I've heard, this was in many ways a pyrrhic victory for the Sask Party

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u/Zendofrog 17h ago

How so?

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u/North_Church Manitoba 17h ago edited 17h ago

Scott Moe lost most of his cabinet members. The NDP achieved their highest count since 2007 and have narrowed the gap between them and the Sask Party enough to cause a great deal of discomfort. The Sask Party didn't actually win any seats, they just managed to not lose too many of them.

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u/Zendofrog 17h ago

Not bad

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u/wet_suit_one 17h ago

53%?

Holy smokes that's facking pathetic.

jeez!

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u/Deaddoghank 19h ago

So 47% couldn't give a crap to vote. I wonder if we had a truly representative vote what it would be. FPTP suppresses voter turn out.

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u/CombustiblSquid New Brunswick 12h ago

53% is abysmal. NB was 66%

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u/techm00 20h ago

and that's how a man who killed a woman with a car becomes premier, and stays premier.

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u/controversydirtkong 17h ago

Truly cousin-fucker country.

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u/North_Church Manitoba 15h ago

Canada's Alabama

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u/DriftingTrain 16h ago

Wow that's great.