I'm a Canadian...and I vote!

[CanuckAmok]

Just a bit of a smugness post...I voted today, and it's good to flex the ol' democracy muscle every few years!

[izzie]

1. I like the week-end voting. I am from the USA and I always vote.

Did you put a mark on a paper?

[TexasProgresive]

2. It must be nice living in

a country that values a vote enough to count it. No hanging chad, no votes lost or changed in digital hell. Congratulations, CanuckAmok

[CanuckAmok]

3. Yep, it's the plain old marked piece of paper placed in a cardboard box...

When I was a kid I was envious of those cool lever machines you guys use in the US, but now I think it's kinda cool to particiate in a system which dasn't changed significantly in a couple of hundred years...

[TexasProgresive]

7. Somebody should tell

our election officials-"Keep it simple, Stupid."

[Parrcrow]

4. I voted last weekend myself

just an X in a box with a pencil.

it works!!

[UrbScotty]

5. Oh yeah?

John Kerry is sexier than Paul Martin, Stephen Harper, and Jack Layton combined!

:P

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

6. ok, that's it

I'm getting Canadian citizenship. I just need to find a Canadian to marry or something.

[Lisa]

8. advance poll on Saturday ...

In the basement of the local library branch. Three Elections Canada volunteers -- a retired guy (deputy returning officer), his wife with the stack of ballots, and a high school student with the voter's list. They said the turnout was pretty high so far (especially for a summer election).

There was a cardboard privacy screen, a wooden pencil, and a cardboard ballot box to put the paper ballot into when you were done.

Perhaps this was all symbolic -- a reminder that as long as we have forest products (and senior citizen volunteers), our democracy will be strong?