Calgary’s bizarre low-turnout, high-turnover election
Calgary’s bizarre low-turnout, high-turnover election
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It's not bizarre at all. There are words that explain exactly what happened: calculated vote suppression and voter disenfranchisement. The election was stolen before it even began, by Bill 20. The result is exactly as intended.
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Indeed.
There were reports of it taking between two and a half and five minutes to process each voter. “All those individual little steps did add to the additional processing times,” said city returning officer Kate Martin.
MRU political scientist Lori Williams. “We’re hearing stories of people being in line for up to two hours, and that some people left the line and didn’t vote at all because the process was too onerous. That’s terrible for democracy.”
What we do know is that it added up to a lousy 39% voter turnout, the lowest in nearly two decades.
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This is a prime example of voter suppression through legal means. The article is worth a read just for that, even if you're not from the region.