Air guitars, ad parodies, Paul Martin talking out his “ads” – going to almost miss this campaign.
Almost.
Andrew Coyne has an op-ed in the New York Times;
“Small earthquake in Canada; not many hurt”
Nealenews has a roundup of commentary from foreign newspapers.
Pollsters are advising this one will be decided by BC.
Got questions? Plug your postal code into Elections Canada.
Update – already readers are reporting that their postal codes “do not exist”.
Toss your own finds in the comments.
My postal code does not ‘officially’ exist, as far as Elections Canada is concerned !?! (Which makes one wonder: how many other postal codes out there do not exist, either?
Neither does mine. I am glad I take the time to know where I am to vote, because Elections Canada Web site certainly doesn’t help at all.
Your postal code doesn’t exist to make way for the double votes in Edmonton. Try keying in the postal code for a local cemetery and you should come up with a jackpot.
Don’t include the hyphen in your postal code. Also, don’t forget to click the link that tells you how many men and women are on the ballot. It was nice to see Conservative reminders hanging from almost every riding doorknob this morning, and not a Lieberal one to be seen. Still, this is Etobicoke-Lakeshore, so anything can happen.
I plugged in my postal code and it worked.
Cool, cloudy and anticipatory here. Expecting a banner turnout of strong Conservative voters in our riding.
I just checked the EC riding finder. It worked fine for me, with all information present and correct, and I live in a CPC riding.
Tried the Elections Canada site.
Didn’t work for my postal code, or for my address either.
Pretty pathetic really. I suppose you only count if you live in a strong Liberal city riding.
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Nope, my postal code did not work here in northern Saskatchewan. I voted in the advance polls and when I phoned Elections Canada to find out where to vote they (someone in eastern Canada) directed me to another Riding. I followed up by calling my local Elections Canada Official who couldn’t find the info right away – but called me back and directed me to the wrong facility. Fortunately I found the poll because of a small sign on the door of the correct facility in my very small town.
oh, my postal code exists…. apparently Cache Creek (pop. 900 at best) has multiple polling stns according to elections canada.HooNoo… elections canada… good thing they’re in control! Uhuh….
My local CPC candidate decided to give Canada’s “collective” left-wing a prostate exam with his middle finger, the night before the election… ON CBS’ 60 minutes, no less.
But eh… Why talk about that, when we can talk about voter irregularity of the 2006 Canadian election. zzzzzzzzzzzz. *snore*
I just voted for Brian Jean 10 minutes ago. ZERO problems. Back to another site…
Ohhhhh. Look what I found at Bourque!
How typical is THAT eh? lol
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/01/20/60minutes/main1225184.shtml
I went to the Elections Canada website and my postal code apparently doesn’t exist. (I’m in Alberta). Now I’ve been given an incredible runaround trying to find out where to vote. I phoned elections Canada, told them what I wanted, and was given another number to call. I did, and I gave my name and address. I was put on hold for a long time, then told that I could vote at a certain nearby school. I am just outside of that riding, and I told her so, so put me on hold again, then gave me another number. No one answers at that number.
They sure have it down to a fine art.
Don’t put a hyphen in the postal code.
The page has code to strip out spaces in the postal code like this:
PC.value = replace(PC.value,’ ‘,”);
At a minimum it should look something like this:
PC.value = PC.value.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/g, ”);
But it would better if it said:
if (PC.value.match(/^[a-zA-Z][0-9][a-zA-Z]\s*[0-9][a-zA-Z][0-9]$/)) {
document.POSTAL.submit();
} else {
alert(‘Postal code format must be X9X 9X9.’);
}