I'm an Alberta Senator!
Dec. 12th, 2004 11:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jamesqI'm happy to report that I have just been elected Senator. The vote was overwhelmingly in my favour - turnout being a whopping 67% with yours truly received an astonishing 100% of the votes cast. It would have been 100% turnout and 100% of votes cast I'm sure, but Carmen was asleep and I didn't want to wake her up. I'd like to thank the electorate (Connie and myself) for coming out and showing such strong support.
With such positive electoral support, I expect the Alberta government to do their best to get me appointed to the Senate along with those other guys in that other election (however, my election was more recent, so I expect to be appointed first. After all, the most recent wishes of the people are the most accurate). In fact, I may be the only qualified appointee because not a single person in the Pepperland election declined, rejected or spoiled their ballot.
In the Provincial Senate election, 85,973 of the 714,709 physical ballots were declined. 12.0% of voters were sufficiently pissed off at the colossal waste of resources on a joke election that they registered, then went to the polling station and then refused to take the ballot. By way of comparison, Link Byfield (one of the so called winners) got 238,751 of 2,001,356 - 11.9% of votes cast. Why were there more votes than ballots? Was it in Calgary's ward ten? No, it's because you could vote for up to four appointees. I feel confident that if those people were able to decline their ballots four times, they would have done so. Mapping everything over to a percentage of the vote seems fair to me. You can check my math here if you're so inclined.
Incidentally, if you add up the spoiled ballots, declined ballots and rejected ballots, it comes out to a whopping 25.0% Some of those people may have just fucked up their ballot because they can't follow directions, so it's a bit of a guess as to what their intentions are. That Bert Brown (312,041 or 2,001,356) got 15.6% of the vote (and he had the most votes of all the candidates) and was still a distant second to "fuck you" is, I think, rather telling.
Let me underline that point: More people in Alberta said this was a waste of fucking time then thought any of the candidates would make a decent Senator. Link is understandably upset by this and is lashing out. Crankiness this severe can only be treated by a blow job. As Senator-elect I will be happy to loan him the fifty bucks he needs to procure one. Hell, I'll even buy him a couple shots of Jack Daniels so that he can get the taste out of his mouth.
At the very least, I should have Link's appointment. And the wonderful thing is, I will! I will become a Senator from Alberta at the same time as Link Byfield. Why? Because my bogus election is every bit as valid as Alberta's. I unilaterally decided to change the rules for how Senators are appointed for the entire country without consulting anyone - and so did the Alberta government. More importantly, the Federal Liberals are never going to appoint Link Byfield to the Senate - just like they're never going to appoint me to the Senate.
With such positive electoral support, I expect the Alberta government to do their best to get me appointed to the Senate along with those other guys in that other election (however, my election was more recent, so I expect to be appointed first. After all, the most recent wishes of the people are the most accurate). In fact, I may be the only qualified appointee because not a single person in the Pepperland election declined, rejected or spoiled their ballot.
In the Provincial Senate election, 85,973 of the 714,709 physical ballots were declined. 12.0% of voters were sufficiently pissed off at the colossal waste of resources on a joke election that they registered, then went to the polling station and then refused to take the ballot. By way of comparison, Link Byfield (one of the so called winners) got 238,751 of 2,001,356 - 11.9% of votes cast. Why were there more votes than ballots? Was it in Calgary's ward ten? No, it's because you could vote for up to four appointees. I feel confident that if those people were able to decline their ballots four times, they would have done so. Mapping everything over to a percentage of the vote seems fair to me. You can check my math here if you're so inclined.
Incidentally, if you add up the spoiled ballots, declined ballots and rejected ballots, it comes out to a whopping 25.0% Some of those people may have just fucked up their ballot because they can't follow directions, so it's a bit of a guess as to what their intentions are. That Bert Brown (312,041 or 2,001,356) got 15.6% of the vote (and he had the most votes of all the candidates) and was still a distant second to "fuck you" is, I think, rather telling.
Let me underline that point: More people in Alberta said this was a waste of fucking time then thought any of the candidates would make a decent Senator. Link is understandably upset by this and is lashing out. Crankiness this severe can only be treated by a blow job. As Senator-elect I will be happy to loan him the fifty bucks he needs to procure one. Hell, I'll even buy him a couple shots of Jack Daniels so that he can get the taste out of his mouth.
At the very least, I should have Link's appointment. And the wonderful thing is, I will! I will become a Senator from Alberta at the same time as Link Byfield. Why? Because my bogus election is every bit as valid as Alberta's. I unilaterally decided to change the rules for how Senators are appointed for the entire country without consulting anyone - and so did the Alberta government. More importantly, the Federal Liberals are never going to appoint Link Byfield to the Senate - just like they're never going to appoint me to the Senate.
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