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Trudeau and Singh's teams quietly planning electoral reform legislation (www.ctvnews.ca)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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As progress on some measures in the Liberal-NDP confidence-and-supply agreement continue to play out publicly, the two parties have quietly been in talks to table electoral reform legislation before the next federal vote.

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

While not a full-scale overhaul of the federal voting system as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau once promised, within the two-party confidence-and-supply agreement are a series of electoral reform proposals aimed at expanding "the ability for people to vote."

Specifically, the Liberals and New Democrats agreed to explore:

  • Allowing an "expanded" three-day voting period during general elections;
  • Allowing voters to cast their ballots at any polling place within their riding; and
  • Improving the mail-in ballot process with both accessibility and maintaining integrity in mind.

...

Expanding the amount of days Canadians have to cast their ballot may be the most significant proposal currently under negotiation.

Overall not super interesting. These are good proposals of course, but not exactly the kind of electoral reform that I think most of us are looking for. Maybe that will change but I'm not feeling particularly hopeful.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Okay, so their approach to disenfranchised voters:

  1. No actual voting change.
  2. No voting reform.
  3. No enforcement of existing laws forcing companies to give people 8 hours to vote.
  4. We'll give them more days they can vote on! Sure that's the problem.

Eat the rich.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago

No enforcement of existing laws forcing companies to give people 8 hours to vote.

It’s 3 hours not 8 and includes time after your shift so if polls close at 7 and you work until 5 then you are entitled to 1 hour off

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Eat the rich.

Too fatty. Just guillotine them and leave them for the birds.

[–] Kecessa 2 points 6 months ago

Show me where it's written in the law that people are supposed to get 8 hours off to vote.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I got excited for a moment.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

So did I, but I guess at this point we should know better.