From My Bottom Step

Let’s Not Rush Towards Online Voting

Is increased voter turnout more important than an informed result?

Should We Vote by Smoke Signals?

Inquiries re Municipal Voting Methods

Vote For London

A 2010/01/11 media release by the City of London:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

You could put London on the new Monopoly Canada game board

Hasbro, the maker of the popular board game Monopoly, is launching a nationwide vote to find Canada’s 22 favourite cities that will be included on the new Monopoly Canada game board. And Londoners can ensure that The Forest City makes the list. Continue Reading

More Pot Stirring

Between cooking turkey and washing dishes and doing a couple loads of laundry, I happened to catch some of the “News” hour on AM980 this morning.

Left-bashing pot-stirrer Jim Chapman was at it again on behalf of the right-wingers who have been so discontented with this City Council. Continue Reading

LTC Strike: Need A Lift?

And this reminder from the City:

Transit alternatives and info on the City website include Carpool matching program:
http://bit.ly/4ncnNY

And here’s a UWO site that may be able to help: Mustangs Moving Mustangs.

SNTF: Municipal Election Voter Turnout

Did your neighbourhood vote in the municipal election? #SNTF #LDN

Where’s the BEST London Restaurant?

Want to reward the one’s that deserve it, for good or bad? It’s easy!

Simply visit London Ontario Restaurants and choose the one that you want to rate. If nobody’s identified it yet, simply add it to the list.

As of this writing, the top contenders are:

Fellini Koolini’s
Tru Restaurant
East Side Marios
Palasad
The Tasting Room
Thuan Kiew
Under the Volcano
Ben Thanh
Only on King
Dawghouse

VOTE!

Is voting too inconvenient for most? It would seem so. In my view, the main reason we have backward thinking dinosaurs in public office is because of poor voter turnout.

100% of people love to bitch and complain about all levels of government, yet barely half show up to the polls. In the last Provincial election 52.6% made it to the polls. In the last Federal election 59.1% showed up. Search as I might I could not find the percent from the last Municipal election, but I do know the turnout was low. Continue Reading

What Would a PR Result Look Like?

This is what the ‘first past the post’ result currently looks like, and for comparison, if they were awarded seats based upon the ‘proportional representation’ percentage of the popular vote that they received:

PARTYVOTES% OF FPPPR
  VALIDSEATSSEATS
Conservatives5205334
37.630144116
Liberals3629990
26.2427781
BQ1379565
9.9734831
NDP2517075
18.1963756
Green940747… Continue Reading

Caranci Postures About Citizen Safety

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