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There are some parts of Ontario that are quite "out of the way". Ottawa is not one of those places.
In California, a few counties are doing voting almost entirely by mail, with only a few polling places (roughly one per city). I'm hoping this works out, because it's a lot less trouble and expense for everyone involved. Having been a poll worker, I know that the process is pretty involved: recruiting people to work for one day, training them every single time, securing many locations in limited geographic areas for one whole day and paying if necessary, transporting materials to and from the polls and then storing them between elections. If a polling place doesn't have a phone, the county gives you a cell phone and pays for service. All of this opposed to paying the post office a small fee for delivery. The only downside is that you can't correct people who have overvoted, which happens quite a bit when there are two columns of candidates for the same office on the same page.
And on the couldn't be bothered to vote, I still like Australia's system, where you get a token fine for not voting (somewhere in the range of AU$20 to 80). Let the free market decide if you'd rather support democracy with money or time!
For Doug Ford and the PCs, I wish them good luck. I doubt I'd support half of their issues, but when governments succeed, the people in them do too.
There are some parts of Ontario that are quite "out of the way". Ottawa is not one of those places.
In California, a few counties are doing voting almost entirely by mail, with only a few polling places (roughly one per city). I'm hoping this works out, because it's a lot less trouble and expense for everyone involved. Having been a poll worker, I know that the process is pretty involved: recruiting people to work for one day, training them every single time, securing many locations in limited geographic areas for one whole day and paying if necessary, transporting materials to and from the polls and then storing them between elections. If a polling place doesn't have a phone, the county gives you a cell phone and pays for service. All of this opposed to paying the post office a small fee for delivery. The only downside is that you can't correct people who have overvoted, which happens quite a bit when there are two columns of candidates for the same office on the same page.
And on the couldn't be bothered to vote, I still like Australia's system, where you get a token fine for not voting (somewhere in the range of AU$20 to 80). Let the free market decide if you'd rather support democracy with money or time!
For Doug Ford and the PCs, I wish them good luck. I doubt I'd support half of their issues, but when governments succeed, the people in them do too.
"Kitto daijoubu da yo." - Sakura Kinomoto