(The following letter was sent to the Alberni Valley News, Times Colonist, Nanaimo News Bulletin, National Post, and Globe and Mail. Published in: Times Colonist May 5) What an election on Vancouver Island. We rocked that vote. Turnout was a minimum of 72.6% in North Island-Powell River to 77.8% in Saanich-Gulf Islands. Well done all! …
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Followup Blog: Graphs from the Referendum
I wrote a blog a few weeks ago poking at the media for making such a big kerfuffle about the “low turnout” in the Referendum after just a few days of data coming back from Elections BC. I noted the differences in numbers indicated a likely connection to patterns in how ballots were mailed out, …
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Don’t Panic, just Vote! (and return your ballot)
Updated graphs to Nov 16 and Added individual coloured ridings graphs at bottom. Update 2: Elections BC announces actual packages returned so far. I see this Global News report that Elections BC is changing the way it is announcing numbers of ballots received. Turns out they have already received almost 20% but the number on …
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