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Joelcool7 on 05 May 2011
mrstickball said:
Joelcool7 said:

I actually worked for Elections Canada this year. Man was that a royal pain in the butt. Had to get up at 5:30 and stand from 6-7:30 with no lunch or bathroom breaks. Then I was stuck at the polling station till all the votes were counted.

But I'm pretty happy considering I voted Conservative and they won a majority. Yayz its awsome I was totally caught off guard. I expected a minority Conservative Government. I was 90% sure that Jack Layton was going to over throw the Government with a Liberal/NDP/Bloc coalition.

I was so sure I was going to wake up to Prime Minister Jack Layton addressing the country with his coalition Government. Considering he himself said a coalition Government was a democratic right and in the constitution.

But now that we have a Conservative Majority I don't have to worry about that till 2015. Then again I would rather see an NDP Government then a Liberal.

Wow, that sucks. I've worked multiple US elections, and we don't have to deal with that. All votes are tabulated electronically, which meant the total time it took to count votes was ~30 minutes while we packed the machines up. For food, we usually had family either bring us something, or merely brought something early to keep. Did have to get there earlier/stay later than you (got there at 5:30, opened at 6, and stayed till 8 at night).


Well I was able to eat, just didn't get a lunch break or time to do so. I had a pack of Pringles and inbetween bringing voters to their polling booths I would throw a couple chips in my mouth. But it was extremely busy all day we had at least a thousand voters probably closer to two.So I was too busy bringing voters to their polling stations, looking up addresses and greeting people to get a snack break.

We don't use the electronic machines to vote. We do it the good old fashioned way (Paper ballots) Its not as efficient but I guess our Government doesn't think electronic voting machines are accurate enough. Or maybe they think you could hack a machine to rig the vote.

But I gotta admit I was happy to help out with the voting process. I am a huge proponent of democracy and everybody right and duty to vote. So I don't mind one horrible day to benefit the country.



-JC7

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