#federal elections

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Fewer Canadians than at almost any point since the party was elected with Justin Trudeau as leader are considering voting for the federal Liberals, according to the latest tracking by Nanos Research.

The polling firm has tracked "accessible voters," that is, how many Canadians would consider voting Liberal, each week since before the party was elected with Trudeau as leader in 2015.

While between 50 and 60 per cent of respondents said they would consider voting for the Liberals when surveyed in the months leading up to the 2015 federal election — when former prime minister Stephen Harper's Conservative party was still in power — only 36.2 per cent would consider casting their ballot for Trudeau's Liberals right now. [...]

In other words, Pierre Poilievre's Conservatives would capture 43 per cent of the vote if an election were held today, while the Liberals would get 23 per cent, the NDP 21 per cent, the Bloc six per cent and the Green Party about four per cent. [...]

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Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[carbone14]

Des membres du Schutzpolizei (à gauche) et du Hilfspolizei (à droite) patrouillent dans la Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse le jour des élections législatives au Reichstag – Berlin – 5 mars 1933

Photographe : Georg Pahl

©Bundesarchiv - Bild 102-14381

[queenvlion]

📸( msnbc yahoo essence democracy Kevin Banatte) WW HAVE SHOWN UP FOR #WhiteSupremacy DONT COMPLAIN 😭 WHEN THINGS DONT GO YOUR WAY.

[armariuminterreta]

The election coverage this year was long, drawn-out, and obsessed with speculating about majorities. But how close actually was the election?

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Essex South C.C.F. Nominee Congratulated," Windsor Star. June 5, 1943. Page 5. ---- FOLLOWING his nomination as C.C.F. candidate for Essex South in Leamington, Friday night, Mr. R. M. Crouch was congratulated by C.C.F. spokesmen who went to Leamington to address the meeting. This scene, taken after the meeting, shows, left to right: Mr. Nelson Alles, of Windsor, C.C.F. candidate for Essex North; Mr. Andrew Brewin, of Toronto, vice-president of the provincial organization, and Mr. Crouch.

[writing-with-olive]

just trying to get a sense of where the userbase is - reblog it increase sample size

you can look up registration here:

https://www.nass.org/can-I-vote

[deadpresidents]

Just to be clear: this is WAY more serious than the New York indictment and a huge story now that it is really happening.

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

[odusseus-xvi]

Was looking up things about q!Antoine (as a normal and sane person do) and I am really intrigued and fascinated by his thoughts on the election and everyone. If you think q!BBH doesn't trust easy, q!Antoine doesn't trust ANYONE.

There is notes on a lot of the residents in his secret room (called literally "The End of the World" BTW if you even care) and some parts I find captivating and wanted to share here : (caught those on his page on the wiki, he said he will show us more of those at a later date)

About q!Cellbit :

"His favourite thing was to hang out with Cucurucho. Is he the real Federation candidate ? It is too obvious that Elquackity is corrupted, nobody in good conscience can vote for him. Elquackity is a distraction, a decoy. [...] Knows way more than what he says, must not give him more power than what he already has."

About q!Forever :

"Close to BBH and Baghera. The three of them were acting really strangely but that behavior is dying down with the election (keeping informations to themselves, secret meetings). He doesn't seem to follow the same train of thoughts than BBH and Baghera. He wants to become president but act like those who "don't really want to be". Has a strange and clouded relationship with Cellbit."

Then there is what he thinks about the others that he said onstream, and that I'm pulling from memory right now :

About q!BBH and q!Baghera : He seems to think they can be adequate for president but REALLY doesn't like the way they are secretive about a lot of things relating to the island and their plans, making them too untrustworthy to become president to him.

He's said multiple times that his favorite candidates are q!Mike and Gegg, but he has reservations : q!Mike to him has good ideas, but similarly to some, wants to be president a bit too much to be trusted in his opinion. As for Gegg, q!Antoine basically agrees with everything he said, but thinks the Federation is way too powerful for it to be achievable.

To him the elections are pointless and only serves the federation. He agrees with a lot of ideas of a lot of candidates, but thinks it doesn't matter since the Federation remains the ones in power, and WILL have the final word on everything. His wish would be to not play the Federation's game, but then again you can't let someone like ElQuackity or Foolish win.

As of now what he decided to do, is keep an eye on everyone and everything happening, while not taking part in anything.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

China tried to meddle in the last two Canadian elections but the results were not affected and it was “improbable” Beijing preferred any one party over another, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has told an official probe.

In sworn testimony on Wednesday before a commission conducting a public inquiry into alleged foreign interference in the 2019 and 2021 Canadian elections, Trudeau answered questions about intelligence briefings he had received and asserted the elections were “free and fair”.

The prime minister set up the commission last year under pressure from opposition legislators unhappy about media reports on China’s possible role in the elections. China has consistently denied that it interfered in Canada’s internal affairs, calling the allegations “groundless”.

Erin O’Toole, who led the main opposition Conservative party during the 2021 campaign, has estimated Chinese interference cost his party up to nine seats but added it had not changed the course of the election. Trudeau’s Liberal Party won both the elections.

“Nothing we have seen and heard despite, yes, attempts by foreign states to interfere, those elections held in their integrity. They were decided by Canadians,” Trudeau said. [...]

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Tagging: @newsfromstolenland, @vague-humanoid

Note from the poster @el-shab-hussein: Don't fall for this shit. It's a lie meant to distract you from the fact his campaign worked with the fascist BJP to slander and attack Sikhs in the elections wherein he had to go up against Jagmeet Singh. Corrupt bastard. Don't buy into this shameless redscare tactic, China's just his scapegoat here.

[glowsticcc]

~And now for the results of the 2023 QSMP Presidential Elections!

(the stream was so scuffed it was awesome)

[queenvlion]

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[sniperct]

Republicans openly defying the federal government because they hate brown people

[wiisagi-maiingan]

Are we really back to calling people psyops for saying that they're disillusioned by the American two-party system. Are we really calling people psyops for saying that they don't see the Democratic party as a "lesser evil" when their communities suffer horribly either way. Is this really what we're doing yet again.

The main identifying features of actual psyops on tumblr were 1) just reposting screenshots from other sites with the same generic commentary meant to incite anger without providing solutions and 2) absolutely no original posts or direct interactions with other users. Random people who you disagree with politically are not psyops, they're just people you disagree with.

If I was a Russian psyop paid to undermine American democracy, I wouldn't be so damn broke. God I am so fucking tired of this website.

[apollos-boyfriend]

i think the qsmp elections are actually a super interesting idea. because, to me, the issue with elections on minecraft servers is the elevation of a player to be on a higher level than others. the idea that one player's word can be law, and that their power can be abused in whatever way they want and not much can be done about it. these arcs can be done correctly, but in concept they appear very unfair and powertrip-y to those not elected/not running.

but that's because, for most servers, all players are equal, and they are at the top of the totem pole. they are on top by default, and by elevating another player as president/leader, it feels unbalanced. what's the point if they all had power before? why should they elect a president when they were all on equal ground and could equally make decisions?

the qsmp does not have an equal ground. the players don't have power, they can't make their own decisions, they have no say in anything related to server rules. the federation are the ones on top, detached from the players, so there was never equal ground between every entity on the server. the federation has power that the players don't, and the presidential role finally gives them some semblance of control over their situation.

for most smps, president is just a figurehead. everyone had those powers before the election, and now it just feels unfairly given to just one member. for the qsmp, there is genuine power that was previously out of their hands. not only can they make rules that genuinely impact gameplay (adding members, mods, etc), they can use it to attempt to gain more information on the organization that's been keeping them captive.