Friday, March 02, 2012

Touching on some fudged numbers.

I'm going to start by addressing the first issue, which is the right to vote. If you don't exercise that right, then by default you have decided to accept the will of those who do vote, and therefore you are no longer counted in the final decision. I happened to be directed to the Marxist Leninist Party, which was complaining how the Conservatives didn't get a majority of votes.
Some of their numbers went like this;

Voter turn-out of 14,720,580 out of 23,971,740 registered electors or 61.4%

Harper's Conservatives received 5,832,401 votes, representing 24.3% of the eligible voters

Voters who cast their ballots for candidates other than those of the Conservative Party totaled 8,888,179, representing 60.4%
(emphasis mine)

The 2011 election was riddled with cries of how this from basically all opposition parties, who seem to have forgotten what kind of democracy we live in. This is easily explained away: It's called the “First past the post” system. This means that with more than 2 parties running (and sometimes there can be a number of fringe parties that run in Canada), the winner of the most votes OUT OF ALL OF THEM is considered the winner.

If we WERE to have a 2 party system, as it stands right now there would be no Liberal Party, Bloc or Green party in the House of Commons. And in this scenario the total number of voters that voted “anything but Conservative” would actually have a majority Government in Canada. These facts are sadly negligent in arguments from other parties who would rather not see the Conservative's take their rightful place as a Majority Government in the House of Commons.

On to the fraud perpetrated by these particular numbers.
  1. If you notice they are counting all voters in the equation, in effort to dilute the percentage of the number of votes received by the Conservative Party.
  2. They also inflate the number of those who voted against the Conservative's by clumping votes for ALL the rest of the parties together as if they were a single unit.
It's time for the losing parties to accept the democracy we live in has chosen a Conservative Majority, much like in the past they have chosen other parties in the exact same way.

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