Today’s provincial election day in Beautiful BC, so to any Canadian citizens who’ve lived here for the last 6 months: PLEASE GO VOTE. You have until 8:00PM PDT tonight.
Find your local riding and voting place, as well as registration information at elections.bc.ca
You’ll also have the opportunity to vote for change in our current electoral system. You can either vote Yes or No for the Single Transferrable Vote – info available at the Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform website. There’s also a nifty bit of flash (about 3 minutes long) explaining how STV would work.
Remember, the privilege of democracy comes with certain responsibilities. One of those is participation in elections. So show up, vote for the candidate and system that you feel are right, or spoil your ballots entirely. Just please go and be counted. Your future thanks you.
I’ll TRY, but things are not looking good. I have umpteen strikes against me: no car today, working all but one hour of voting time (can get time off my day job if I have a car) a 25 minute drive from my polling station, long time to vote/long lines (coupled with my work schedule), and NO ID with my current address on it. My husband has some, but he’s in Mount Vernon, Washington. And it’s in his name.
I did not know it was today!
I’m just glad you’re trying 🙂 Too many people I know would just give up then and there!
All you have to do is bring mail (like a hydro bill with your name on it) and ID with you. I voted that way.
We had national elections here last week as well (it was put off from November because of a certain weather system) and it was a bank holiday: i.e. all businesses (with the exception of bars, restaurants and other places that employ mainly ex-pats who don’t get to vote anyway) were closed to allow people ample time to vote. It worked, as there was 91% of registered voters voting.