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It's time to think outside the (ballot) box. Democracy - government for and by the people. Choice in a democracy allows for a voice. Where is the choice between Tweedle-dum, Tweedle-dee and the Tweedle-wannabees? As Henry Ford apparently said, "You can have any colour you want so long as it's black." If voting changed anything, they would ban it. Did you get to vote on the war in Afghanistan? The Libyan incursion? The F35 purchase? Is this democracy or a bad joke? We're living through a drastic situation that calls for unified action beyond the parameters of the hollowed-out shell of an electoral system that passes for representative government in this wholly-owned corporate state. In Ontario elections, you can decline your ballot which at least allows you to express your choice of 'none of the above'. Elections Canada answered my query by stating that to decline, one simply spoils the ballot. So I'm spoiling by choice. If the 40 per cent who didn't vote last time around were in fact expressing dissent from the electoral system, that's more votes than elected the Tory Party. In a democracy what about the voice of the 63 per cent that didn't vote Tory? In my riding of Grey-Bruce-Owen Sound, the Green Party candidate at an all-candidates meeting in a high school suggested spoiling your ballot if none of the candidates was suitable. "Show you want to be part of the process, but just don't like the choices." A glimmer of hope? I've heard the following comments: 'voting for the best of a bad bunch' or 'the lesser of the evils'. Changing the colour of your car is not going to make it run any better. It's time to get rid of the car!
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the time to take control. This is about rejection, not passive
reflection. The social revolution has begun.
Why waste your vote with our first-past-the-post system? Get to the voting booth and get spoiling. In a bogus system, it's the only authentic choice. Spoiling your ballot is not illegal, it's the only chance to to have a real say in this election. Reject this farce of choice. Play by the rules. Reject this system. Make your vote count. I'll be spoiling by marking all candidates' boxes on my ballot paper. Frank
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