In Canada, Does Your Vote Count?

A short video making fun of the absurdity of Canada's "First Past the Post" electoral system, in which it's normal for a majority of people to vote for someone other than the winning candidate. We need to implement fair voting in Canada, and join the vast majority of other Western democracies that have already done so.

Produced by the members of Simcoe County Fair Vote.

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• Electoral
• Reform
• Fair
• Vote
• Proportional
• Representation
• PR
• Canada
• First
• Past
• The
• Post
• FPTP
• Voting
• Election
• Simcoe

[1981z28camaro]

Voting in Canada is mental, you essentially have no say in who gets elected, you vote for a party, BUT the Queen ultimately chooses the person that makes decisions for an entire country, EVEN if the majority of people don't want that person to make decisions, why doesn't the Queen just pick the person, and we just not waste gas driving to the voting booths, Stimulating the economy by not spending money on gas driving to the voting booth....Energy Crisis adverted,

Bonus.

[1981z28camaro]

@Salrena1 not to start an argument. but I work for a survey company, and I did a survey on the federal election, and a majority of people said they would be voting for Layton, and the NDP, I think I had about 2 people that said they would vote for the Green Party.. not saying your wrong, just thinking there should be a correlation between the results I saw, and your statement.. keep in mind I don't vote, because I just think they will do whatever they want anyways.

[tawnabawna]

so why do some votes not count?

[BlackHorse1327]

I think in the video you counted way more votes than count in reality. In Canada, if you didn't vote for the winning candidate, AND if that candidate doesn't win by ONE vote, then your vote was wasted.

In Canada's current electoral system, votes only count if these two criteria are met. You have a better chance at winning the lottery than having your vote count.

If your candidate wins by 10 or 100 or 1000 votes or more, you think your one vote counts? I think not.

[DavidBrekke1]

I think the video is very catching and true with a strong message, except that voters don't choose to cast ineffective ballots.  One suggestion: Both winning and losing ballots go into the same box. Can you show the system making the votes count or not count? That's what happens.