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Canadian Election rules being changed during the election 3 days ago by WeedleTLiar 12 comments share crosspost save hide report block edit delete nsfw flair Update:
It seems like it was the supervisor of this site specifically. Elections Canada, as per their website, clearly states medical exemptions are allowed.
I returned to try again today and both the worker (same as Friday) and the supervisor tried to tell me that there were no medical exceptions allowed.
Up until I showed them the EC website stating the exact opposite, that is. At that point they immediately changes their tone and "allowed" me to vote.
The supervisor tried to blame it on the training they received from EC so I'll be getting in touch with them to clarify the source of the issue.
The lesson here is: STAND YOUR GROUND
The people pushing tyranny don't care about laws, truth or fairness, they care about power. We need to remind them that the power in this country rests with the people, through democracy and the rule of law.
Original Post: Today is the first day of advanced voting in the Canadian Federal Election.
I just got back from my polling station. I got in, gave my ID, voter card, and contact tracing info.
As I was waiting in line, the election worker got up from his desk and to tell me (the only one not wearing a mask) that I had to leave.
I told him I had a medical exemption, which I had also told him when I first came in, at which time it was not an issue.
He told me he just got a call from his bosses saying that the rules had changed and no one would be allowed to vote in person without a mask.
This is it: real-time voter suppression.
Which party is this going to affect most, do we think? The liberals? The greens? Or the only party opposing government medical mandates who is, just this week, experiencing a huge surge in the polls?
So now a ton of PPC voters are going to have to mail in ballots in order to vote. How secure do we think that will be? How easy will it be to disproportionately affect the dissident party by simply "losing" large amounts of mail?
This is it for me. If I am not able to vote in person in this election I will understand this event as the fall of Canadian democracy. At that point, as a patriotic Canadian, I will be duty bound to do whatever I can towards destroying the system currently in place.
I'm not going to lie; I'm scared. I don't know what I'm going to do, but I know it will be dangerous and it will definitely be illegal. Because when democracy falls, so does the rule of law; anything I do to oppose tyranny will be illegal so there's no reason to hold back.
But we've still got a week. I was given a number to call if I had questions, which I encourage every Canadian reading this to call so you can see for youselves.
Elections Canada: 1-866-239-2826 (automated, of course, I was told to press 0)
Ask them why this rule change happened only after polls opened. Ask them why they won't accomodate medical conditions, in direct contravention to the Ontario Human Rights Code (at the least). Ask them why you should have any faith in this election being fair and free.
And, if you care about democracy and the rule of law, not the whims of the ruling class and the powerful corporations they represent, not the fear, division, and misinformation that they've spread from the beginning of this pandemic, tell them you will not accept this.
God save us all.
Unpopular opinion : Just wear the mask for the election. At least you'll know your vote will count.
Even if you get the exemption, you'll be marked as an obvious PPC supporter by not having one and your vote will end up "lost".
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
Think of it as going undercover
Like the FBI?
What happens when everyone is undercover?
No one really wants the mandates but everyone is going along with them to blend in? That's what got us here in the first place.
Good point thanks
Then, when you're getting ready to go to the local lib parties, this is the mask they will be handing out for everyone
Completely disagree, see the update above.
This whole thing is about control. The more everyone goes along with these ridiculous "mandates", the more the tyrants are emboldened.
I put my vote in the box, if they tear it open to change my one vote there's not much I can do about that.
But I can sure as hell stand up and assert my rights.
Today I both voted and called out petty tyrants on their bullshit, forcing them to take it back. If you ask me which of the two I think is more important to maintaining a healthy democracy, I'll go with the latter, hands down.
Camogflage, mate, camoflage. How do you think anti-commie Russians survived the Soviet regime? Just go through the motions of the ritual, and the Inquisitors will let you pass. Your enemies do this all the time, anyway, and humans have been faking belief tests since forever.
I will not fear, fear is the mind killer...
An animal does whatever it takes to survive. A human, trapped, lies in wait to kill the hunter, that the threat to humanity is eliminated.
Bullshit. Most humans would just sit and fucking cry and whine (mostly "You can't do this to me, I'm a hooman!") AND would foolishly hold out hope that the grinning devil with the human face who can't - or won't - understand the language they're pleading and bargaining in will be "rational" even as he's slitting their silly throats. Because oh, it's a hooman beeeeing and "not an animal".
I have a mask, I will wear it to vote ppc
Democracy is a scam.
You need to understand this.
If you do not accept that premise you will always be abused by those who do.
Yeah, my country is totally free because they give me one totally irrelevant single vote which makes no difference in the slightest every 4 years.
Plan on wearing a mask for only 2 occasions. One, to vote, and two, to participate in civil disobedience when Trudeau refuses to leave office.
Liberals gonna win this one big! 37.59 million votes for the Liberals!
Trudeau most popular president ever!
The reason PPC will lose votes is because your pride gets in the way of you doing the right thing - going to vote irl. No matter the cost. You can say what you want, but you have the demon of pride running your head, and it's not letting you think straight. And if other PPC voters think like this "oh I won't wear a mask so I might as well vote like a tard and submit it via mail for it to get 'lost'" then PPC is doomed. I mean, I'm pretty sure it's doomed anyways just for being the only party with fucking balls.
This is actually a good point.
OP needs to do what others mentioned, camouflage for the sake of the election. If the vote fails? Then you employ contingencies when the election enters doom-state.
You think me insisting on my rights is a bigger threat to a PPC victory than the attitude stating "I'm pretty sure it's doomed anyway"?
I voted, and I did it on my terms, and I got to shut down a petty tyrant in front of her subordinates.
They want you to think it's hopeless so you don't fight. They wouldn't do that if they didn't think you were a threat.
Truthfully, I don't know what to think anymore. What is the right answer? I'm so lost. Soon, it seems, anyone who likes PPC will be labelled a nazi and showing any degree of support or agreement might even jeopardize our jobs. Or maybe that's not the case and I'm just listening to the doomers too much. But lately, it's been feeling less hopeless. That must be worth something.
get on with the times, it's called "fortifying" the election
Doesn't matter. If other people are able to mass vote by mail then it's the fall of Canadian democracy.
Canada used to have the best system: show up in person, vote, hand count watched over by citizens. Now just two years? later they'll have rampant cheating. Oh at first it'll just be enough to tip the scales, later on it'll be so ingrained that the people can never win again.
Get out of Ontario. That province is fucked.
Many. Such. Cases.