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The W - Current Events & Politics - A Proud Moment In Local Democracy
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Since: 3.1.02
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The City of Calgary held its' general municipal election yesterday. Out of the 600,000 eligible voters amongst the 985,000 citizens of greater Calgary...119,495 actually voted. That's 19.9% of eligble voters OR 12.1% of the total citizens. Isn't that SAD?

Oh, the mayor got re-elected (with 79% of the vote) and of the 14 aldermanic seats, 4 aldermen were acclaimed and 2 of the 10 seats up for grabs changed hands. Diane Danielson is the only alderman to lose a seat, since the other seat was vacated.

Ain't democracy great? [No, I didn't vote]



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Eh, I didn't vote either. The mayor was going to win in a landslide and my local alderthingy was going to win handily too. I had no reason to vote against either of them, so I just allowed the universe to unfold as it should without making any waves.






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I'm not sure if you have primaries in Canadian cities, but general elections in major US cities have similar turnouts. Baltimore is 80-some percent Democrat, so the main event is the primaries...



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I did vote-for the incumbents, and most people at work thought I was wasting my time.

I am one of those zealots who thinks not voting is a capital crime, so I had to do my duty.

Apparently turnout was a bit higher in our northern neighbour Edmonton, and they did unseat the sitting mayor.
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As I've said before, if they just called these anti-Bush protests (which they more or less are), I'd be on the front lines. I definitely agree that anti-war folks would not be nearly as vehement if this was Clinton.
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