Yessica...
Well-Known Member
I have been a part of the willfully ignorant my whole life. Up until a few weeks ago, I had never voted in a federal or provincial election.
Now I have, and I feel the power. If the voter turnout for the 2015 federal election can be raised by people like me, we can make a difference together.
Lost souls who never felt like they had anything to fight for before and didn't feel like they could make a difference. Or maybe just equally lazy people that would prefer to sit on a couch than go down to the voter booth. Or anxious people that don't like crowds, people that prefer to keep to themselves. Or any number of reasons I have given myself in the years where I did nothing.
The stats on the elections Canada website were staggering to me when I compared the first election to the last one. In the 2011 elections, when the the vast majority of voting-aged people were allowed to vote, only 61.1% of us showed up. Yet the very first election in 1867, 73.1% of the voting population voted, and they were only representative of 11.1% of the total population of Canada.
If those excluded people were given the option to vote in 1867, they would have. They would have been heard. I am no longer going to take this ability for granted.
Thank you
http://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?dir=turn&document=index&lang=e§ion=ele
Now I have, and I feel the power. If the voter turnout for the 2015 federal election can be raised by people like me, we can make a difference together.
Lost souls who never felt like they had anything to fight for before and didn't feel like they could make a difference. Or maybe just equally lazy people that would prefer to sit on a couch than go down to the voter booth. Or anxious people that don't like crowds, people that prefer to keep to themselves. Or any number of reasons I have given myself in the years where I did nothing.
The stats on the elections Canada website were staggering to me when I compared the first election to the last one. In the 2011 elections, when the the vast majority of voting-aged people were allowed to vote, only 61.1% of us showed up. Yet the very first election in 1867, 73.1% of the voting population voted, and they were only representative of 11.1% of the total population of Canada.
If those excluded people were given the option to vote in 1867, they would have. They would have been heard. I am no longer going to take this ability for granted.
Thank you
http://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?dir=turn&document=index&lang=e§ion=ele
I need to get the hell out of this province ASAP.....
