10:44 ET: CTV HAS JUST CALLED CONSERVATIVE MAJORITY
Observations, turn out at your polling stations – anything that’s legal and directly related to today’s voting. Not a debate or link dump thread, please. (Bumped)
Update: Sun News Livestream is now up. Tonight’s the night we also find out if the “election about nothing that captured the imagination of Canadians” meme is real – or just louder chatter from within the media-junkie echo chamber. I’m sort of leaning towards the latter, but I reserve the right to be wrong.
Update – Polls are closed in the east. LOL.. this is funny. It’s like wartime code… “My orange soda is fizzy…” #tweettheresults is trending right behind #Osama, worldwide. Whoa – 9:32 ET trending above.
Breaking… in one of the most unexpected feints in the history of the Elections Act, thousands of Canadians abandon social media and return to Usenet… developing…
Steady at our polling station. Hoping our CPC candidate gets the nod, but it’s a long shot. The Liberal incumbent has been in for 12 years.
Just wondering… with the new election rule about not broadcasting results as they flow in, is it safe to say one shouldn’t watch a broadcast until close of polls in BC?
Voted at 7:51. The place was deserted.
It was fairly quiet at the polling station when I voted at 9:15 this morning. Asked a couple coworkers here at the office and they both had voted at the advance polls.
10:15AM Decent crowd in attendance. The process working very smoothly because it appears the oldsters that usually man the polling booths have been replaced by younger folks. In and out in 1 minute.
Couple of casual post office conversations this morning and two out of two for CPC Yelich. Not much I know but hoping it extrapolates to a big win.
Busier than usual at Blackstrap 10:30. No wait but I went straight to the poll instead of waiting for instructions in the clot. Processsing one there and three people behind me.
Going out to vote Tory right now. Not much hope for Gin Siow here in deepest, darkest, Sandalistaville. Olivia Chowchescu is not going to lose today. But here’s a prayer that Stephen can pull this off.
For the record, Section 329 of the Canada Elections Act states: “No person shall transmit the result or purported result of the vote in an electoral district to the public in another electoral district before the close of all of the polling stations in that other electoral district”. This is not a “new” rule, as Mark put it, it’s been on the books since 1938. Some Canadian web sites are closing down comments from 17:00 to 22:00 EDT today, after which the last polling stations in the last electoral district will all be closed.
I’m thinking that there isn’t an IQ test required for those working the desk. Went and voted early, and the lady at the table said, “a lot of folks from (my suburb name) voting today”. I asked, wouldn’t this entire poll be from (my suburb name)? Oh yeah, good point, she says.
Check out Bryon Wilfert’s twitter page (he’s the Liberal candidate in Richmond Hill, Ontario). He’s blatantly violating election laws regarding tweeting on election day.
Polls close at 19:00 in BC.
About to go and vote. The area we live in is solid Conservative.
Best wished to Kelly Block, hope she hangs on.
My prediction:
Conservative 168
NDP 62
Liberal 42
Bloc 35
Green 1
Any American based sites or proxy sites providing updates of the eastern results as they happen ??
Voted at about 10 AM in Orivia Cow’s liding. I refused to show ID to a second “polling lady” immediately after I presented it and cleared registration. The second requester was paired with a burka wearer while I wore an INFIDEL hat and camo.
GO PRIME MINISTER STEVE
CPC-152
NDP-77
LPC-52
BQ-27
WM-0
Congrats to new opposition leader. Bye bye to Ignatieff and Duceppe. No, the “boss” isn’t going anywhere, much to the chagrin of moonbats everywhere.
Sorry, hope I’m wrong, but not quite a majority. No coalition, minority, whatever, either. Therefore, no election for two years. Hope the voters don’t pull a brain fart today.
Optimistic about a Blue Crush/Red Fade/Orange Fizz here in Labrador. ABC worked out well for Danny’s ego on the last go around, not so well for local development. Strong local organization (with former Liberal-leaning business people on the exec committee), prominent Innu leader as CPC candidate (Peter Penashue), and a very visible volunteer network. People seem ready to back a winner. Bonus: the Liberal incumbent came out early against the Lower Churchill development. Not a popular stance.
I live in the Carleton Mississippi Mills riding (western part of Ottawa). I will be voting Tory later today. A zebra could win this riding if it ran for the Tories, but I don’t care, I’m still going out to vote because I want the party to get the $2.10 that comes with my vote.
Also, it is raining pretty steadily here in Ottawa. Not ideal conditions for young, lefty loons following a weekend on the bong.
raining and cold here in the Ontario 905.
At the polls in Edmonton-Leduc at 07:35AM. Place was busy, line up starting. Ran into old friend.
Sean @ 12:56
CHerniak is working Wilferts riding…..I doubt Byron is actually doing the tweeting himself.
Fred:
Go east rather than south.
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Thanks for clarifying, Vίt. I’m just wondering if the television outfits are going to abide the law this time around. Living in the East all my life, I’ve seen vote counts and govt projections being broadcast before the close of polls in Ontario and Quebec. It seems CBC, CTV, etc. should not be able to do that, which would make for a pretty boring first 3-4 hours of election coverage. 🙂
Just voted for Conservative candidate Marty Burke here in Guelph. At a legal voting station with no obnoxious vote mobs insight. Just average every day Canadians.
Unfortunately Guelph is a haven for progressives, radicals and anarchists.
Leader of the riots at the G8 from the Black Bloc is from here Kelly Pflug. The Votemob and illegal ballots at U of G took place here Also the NDP/Marxist plants at the Harper rally. Just over the weekend voter suppression auto calls against Burke were made here. Have a feeling Avaaz and or Acorn have set up shop here.
Liberal candidate Catholic and or Evangelical and pro-abort/pro-life depending who he’s talking to Frank Valleriote is the MP.
Keeping fingers crossed that red turns to blue this time.
My polling station relatively quiet, 10 polling stations only a few had customers.
My prediction CPC 157-161 (if Ontario trend continues into today).
Voted just now – CPC obviously. Have something else to share.
On the weekend someone dear to me stated that one reason to oust Harper is that he “defunded Planned Parenthood.” I went on Google immediately and learned that although some MP was pumping up a crowd last month by saying such a move was planned, that no such thing had happened and that, morevoer, another CPC MP immediately called the press and went on record that no such thing is planned or will ever happen. PP is an international NGO in any case, and no one government can “defund” it.
Told the Harper-hater this, and – an image that will haunt me for some time, the perfect symbol of the Canadian liberal – she clapped her hands over her ears, shut her eyes and moaned “I don’t want to talk about it.”
Propaganda is insidious in ways that still have the power to shock and amaze me.
I saw on Kitco that the Canadian dollar dropped close to a half cent this morning. They are saying it’s because they don’t expect Harper to get a majority government today. I’m cautiously optimistic that they can pull it off today. Go Conservatives.!!
It had been raining here, but it is just overcast now. I am running the CPC campaign office in town and our major activity is providing rides to the polls. About an hour ago Gord Brown, our MP, along with Senator Bob Runciman and Steve Clark, the PC MPP, dropped in for a visit. Senator Bob complimented me on our sandwich board outdoor sign which read “Wahoo! Seals 1, Osama Bin Laden 0.”
It isn’t just the two bucks. I am tired of ‘they only got xx votes so yy don’t support them.’
Not that they will be quiet, I expect the proportional representation trolls to start after the results are given. When you can’t win..change the rules.
Voted in Calgary Centre this morning. Not surprisingly, the place was deserted. You could have fired an arillery round into the place and not hit anyone. Saw three people voting though there was a bus of seniors pulling up near the place as I left (I assume to vote).
Held my nose and voted Tory. The least worst of the 3 socialist options. When I left, the only other guy I saw was an older gentleman asking if he could somehow vote for no one and still present his ballot to be counted. Real enthusiasm here in Calgary Centre…
Speedy, you mean you had to PAY someone to vote Commie? Oops – it was a fake polling place, sucker. Typical Commie tactic.
Just as speedy as ever…or maybe you meant something completely different and your complete failure to communicate context in English is working its ususal magic.
Just cast my vote for the CPC, my Tory candidate has a pretty good chance of hanging onto his seat but the NDP could pose a challenge. Oshawa either goes orange or blue, Liberals don’t have a hope in hell. My polling station was pretty quiet, I was the only young person there, mostly older voters so hopefully that spells good news for the Tories!
I honestly don’t think the CPC majority will happen. I pray that it will, but I just can’t see it. We’ll be right back where we were before. Something has to change to get a CPC majority. No matter what Harper says or does, the opposition has painted him as mean and scary, and if they can do that to the nicest, most decent politician we’ve had in decades, to whom do we turn? And is there even a point to changing leaders as the Opp’n will just turn their hateful and lying propaganda machine against whoever it is. They’d tell us Mother Theresa is a hate-filled warmonger who wants to force pregnant women to work for minimum wage in corporate sweat shops. So what do we do to get the majority?
Just voted. Fairly quiet; no queue to get in or at the separate tables.
I may be confusing it with the past municipal and/or provincial elections, but the ballot was an “X marks the spot” ballot and not the ones I was expecting with the “complete the pointing arrow — –>” style.
We’ll see what happens in Quebec, but I’m confident of the CPC doing well elsewhere because there’s no one who has voted CPC in the last two elections or just in the last election who is going to change his vote or stay at home; the NDP base might be a full turnout but I don’t think they will have attracted new or formerly-non-voters and even if their turnout does go up 10-15%, will that make a difference in all of the ridings where they finished (poor) thirds last time?; and the only ones demoralized by events, their leadership or upset about a needless election call are Grits who might stay home to punish the party. And with the turnout for federal elections having been falling for decades, anyone staying at home this time (whether habitual or rarely) is more likely to be a Grit than a Conservative.
I can’t see us losing any seats that aren’t already ours or without making up for any close-riding losses with the odd close-riding win so we may even gain those missing 12 or so seats to win the majority.
Voted at 10:00 for CPC Russ Hiebert here in Cloverdale, polling station very quiet.
Scrutineering for CPCs in Barrie, ON, a ‘bedroom’ commute for Metro Toronto jobs. Very low activity so far, butbhoping that’s because CONSERVATIVES ACTUALLY WORK AT REAL JOBS! Much higher activity expected after 5PM when Toronto workers start to drift back home, or so the locals assure me.
For early results? If you’ve got higher levels of cable TV packages (like “Premium Basic”) you can get Atlantic CBC / CTV / Global channels in Ontario, higher up the cable dial in the low 100s channels.
My polling station was on my normal waling route to work here in Calgary SE. It was quite but not dead, a slow (really slow) line of the old folks walking about. The slowest part was me getting my ID out of my wallet.
Quick and simple. An X in a circle, very simple and easy to understand. I for one fear the day when EC wants to modernize the system.
@grok – I grok you, man. Terrible state of affairs. What indeed can be done to penetrate the veil of suspended adolescence that so many Canadians live behind? Leftard propagandists know how to exploit this – they are cut from exactly the same cloth but have what the voters don’t: self-awareness and pride in their immaturity instead of the shame and desire to change they ought naturally to feel.
It’s a quandary, a mess, a frickin’ boondoogle of catastrophic proprotions. It’s culture-wide, the entire West is in its grip: how the HELL do you convince people to grow the f*ck up when everything in their culture encourages them not to?
Complete breakdown in the democratic process at my polling booth in Victoria BC – both lead pencils were broken. Otherwise a quiet steady flow of voters. Sadly, the dippers are a shoo-in here.
Are we going to have a seat breakdown thread?
Electoral officer asked me if I wanted her to put my vote in the ballot box? Is this normal?
Steady stream at our polling station. Quite surprised though when got ballot… There is a guy running for the Progressive Canadian Party. He shows up at the top of the ballot and on his ballot the party affiliation is PC party….
Sure hope people don’t confuse this with the Conservative candidate…
Who wants to bet the NDP are going to be intimidating people at polling stations?
Private
No. Normal procedure is for you to put in the box so you know it was done. You hand them the ballot so they can tear off the auditing number, then they hand it back to you so you put in the box.
That being said, as long as you saw her put it in you should be fine.
Something has to be done with Elections Canada – I brought my passport for identification and those manning the polls were not interested if I was a Canadian citizen, they just wanted to see something with my name/address on it. I showed them my driver’s license and pointed out that maybe they should be more concerned if I’m actually eligible to vote in federal elections. Their response was that no everyone will have a passport – I responded that everyone will have a birth certificate, and for those not born in Canada, a permanent resident card!! They were baffled by my comments.
I just got back, the place was full they were all seniors. I did not see one single person under the age of forty voting.
Private: I was given the choice of putting the ballot in the box myself or having them do it. I did it myself. Last time around I was almost ready to walk away and they reminded me that I needed to put the ballot in the box. ??? Maybe something has changed?
Turn out is steady even though our CPC candidate won by the biggest margin of any MP in last election. Voting is very slow because about half of the voting cards are wrong. I wonder what the people at elections canada actually do for their huge union salaries?
Got the week off so I was at the polls as they opened. Safe to say I was bringing the down the average age of group of voters in the room. Looks like we’re going to miss a majority by a slim number. So I’m curious, with the utter colapse of the Liberal Party in this election if there will be any defectors come May 3rd? Might get a majority after all, with a little help from some blue grits!
I voted mid morning. No wait, but a steady trickle of voters.
I’ll only watch SunTV news for the coverage and results.
I’m scrutineering in Ottawa. Pretty quiet so far. What I’m concerned about is the rush after 4 or 5 pm. There are not enough people working here in my opinion. There could be some lengthy waiting times. Is this what EC wanted? Same as the advanced polls.