Peterborough race is the tightest in the country. 1 vote could make it or break it. VOTE!

Everyone needs to VOTE. End of story.
- I maintain it should be required by law to vote, punishable by expatriation. If one doesn't want to do the one thing required of them in a democracy, they can gtfo and live in an undemocratic country.
  
  Expatriation is a bit extreme, especially when we don't even have a voting holiday. I agree with a strong incentive though, perhaps a 1-3% tax rebate?
  
  I suspect that, when certain election methods are used, it's possible to make your preferred candidate lose if you express support for them:
  instant-runoff voting is also sometimes vulnerable to a paradoxical strategy of ranking a candidate higher to make them lose, due to instant-runoff voting failing the monotonicity criterion.
  I can imagine that someone's best choice can be to entirely abstain from voting in some situations. I don't think it's ethical to force people to vote if doing so would harm them.
  Making a law about an obligation to vote will probably make future electoral reform harder (since people will have to figure out / get confused about whether a change will make it more likely for them to land in court), and making it hard to change bad systems is surely a bad thing.
  Incentivizing someone to show up and just cast a blank ballot could make it harder to detect fraud. For example, it might be convenient to dispose of ballots that someone intended to misuse by mixing them in with the legitimate ballots, and having more blank ballots that are actually legitimate would make it less clear whether something illegal has happened.
  "Voting in all federal elections in Australia is a legal obligation for citizens aged 18 and over", but there isn't a very steep penalty for not doing so (and you might even get your name published in a newspaper, which some people might value for its own sake):
  Failure to vote in the federal election initially results in a $20 fine as per section 245 of the Act, which can grow if left unpaid to a $220 fine and court fees.
  Having early voting and making the "main" voting day be a holiday for a large number of people seems like a good idea, since that makes voting easier for people who want to vote. Hounding people who don't want to vote (regardless of their reasoning) seems like a worse idea.
- No they don't. I probably won't vote this year. I'm in Leduc-Wetaskwin tell my why my vote matters? At least when the vote subsidy was around I could vote and know something happened because of it. Now I am caring less and less each election.
  The next election that matters for me is provincial as the ANDP has a chance.
  
  Cool, your apathy is what will ruin this country regardless of your circumstances and context
  
  You lazy fucker
  
  What are you doing here then? If you don't care enough to take an hour to go vote then you shouldn't be spending any time discussing politics. If voting doesn't matter, then discussing politics on lemmy definitely doesn't matter.
  
  I still vote for NDP in my riding even though it's a Liberal stronghold. Not voting would amount to giving up, and we can't just give up no matter the odds.
  My vote tells the NDP and their candidate that there are people out there caring for their platform.

While I don't enjoy seeing our politics being reduced to a two party system, given the lack of proportional representation this seems like an obvious decision for the NDP voters and even the party itself. Better a liberal than Conservative when they're clearly not going to win.
- Proportional representation sucks (see Israel for an example of how that can go wrong) and it will never happen because nobody can promote it without also indicating they like it because it will give their preferred political party an advantage. So it all sounds like "I want to change the democratic system so that my party will win" which puts you on the same level as people that want to rig elections.
  Ranked choice voting would be a better thing to promote for people that find it difficult to accept democracy is about making compromises. In the end you'll never have a system where millions of people will get exactly what they want, but if the goal is to give immature people warm and fuzzy vibes when they vote for a party that doesn't have chance of winning, then ranked choice is a way to do that without giving political parties even more power than they already have.

@Sunshine, I like the idea of engaging fellow voters by surfacing interesting ridings. We should do more of that. Highlight close races, and who's the main contenders. Might get some people in those ridings informed and others motivated to get out and vote.

I'm so disappointed in our country at this point. 4 years of conservative government across North america- good luck everyone who doesn't vote for PP
- Not really clear where your position is, but I will make my position clear: We all see where right wing populism ends up just by looking south of us. It's a disaster. Copying that in this moment is outright idiocy. Picking the right wing populist who has never been on the right side of an issue and who mimics the exact policy beats of the Republicans is a surefire way to go down the same path. We need to tell the Conservatives to drop their culture war crazies, stop fighting against experts, stop trying to remove rights from people, and focus on real solutions to real problems.
  
  Canadians conservatives are left of the Democrats. Canada is far less right leaning.
- Very strong collaborator vibes from this one.

U guys want trump? No? Go vote then.

looks like 170 bless could make the difference

I really hope the polls are right and we don't get a conservative government. But polls are notoriously wrong now.
- I keep hearing statements like this, but they're not backed up by data. Polls are rarely "wrong" and aggregators such as 338Canada do a pretty good job of predicting local races. While there are are some historically bad misses (many pollsters for the 2016 US Presidential Election), IMHO the biggest issues is people not understanding what polls actually mean, and the media doing a terrible job of explaining them.
  
  My tepid take, every poll should report with error bars, would help somewhat, like I know they report moe but still, visual would be best to convey that quickly.
  Doesn't help that in my experience, people just don't have a great grasp on statistics, was a common complaint of a statistician friend I worked with for years. As to why, stats specific courses weren't required when I went to highschool, I hope that's changed.
  
  Also the 2024 election. Also the bc provincial election last year. Pretty sure the last federal election polls Also were wrong. Polls are instantly biased by the type of people that answer polls, or the audience that the polls are based on.
- I'll take anyone except the Liberal cabinet. Imagine Sean Fraser getting his job back when even Carney himself renounced his entire tenure saying it dramatically hurt the poor and increased wealth inequality. Or Freeland as a finance minister who landed 20b over her own fiscal guardrail. These people were rightfully disliked.
- Can’t fathom the idea of another liberal government, regulations after regulations making the tiniest tasks unnecessarily complex then, once people settle with the regulations they go and pull the red carpet out on ya a couple years later.
  Firearms owners know how this feels.
  
  You'd rather have a guy notwithstanding your rights away just so that your little hobby can be a little more easier for you. And if that makes it easier for someone to massacre school children, you're cool with that too as long as you have a little less paperwork for a fucking hobby.
  Single issue voters are the death of freedom.

All one can do is hope for anything but another liberal government.
- So you prefer to have PP to notwithstanding your rights away?
  
  Conservative logic demands perfection from all other parties except their own, in which case, anything goes.