I didn't know there would be 7 candidates. It just worked out. But I did plan the whole thing out (prep'ing the camera, for instance.) I had a black marker ready, but didn't need it, obviously.
We had only four parties running candidates in my riding (St. John's East). I heard (urban legend?) that someone wrote in over the candidates name "Eenie, Meenie, Minee and Moe".............and then put an "X" for Moe.
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Congratulations. You just admitted to committing a crime under the Canada Elections Act.
you are misreading the act
that ballot would have been merely judged as "rejected" by poll clerk, deputy returning officer and any scrutiner that would have been present
creating a rejected ballot is not defacing it or otherwise
at my polling station we actually had 3 rejected ballots
The I'm all for amending the act to make it unlawful to willfully cause a ballot to become spoiled.
Why?
For me, someone has put the time in to show up. Their expression, in so far as it doesn't interfere with others' expression, is valid.
I am 100% behind a 'none of the above' option so that people wouldn't need to be creative to voice displeasure, and so parties could measure the 'willing to vote...hate you all' base.
Right now, from what I understand (limited) it's lumped in with the 'too dumb to mark an X' base.
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