If somebody tells you voting is pointless, they are voting for somebody you wouldn't vote for.
this post was submitted on 30 Apr 2025
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Casting a vote is as effective at achieving political objectives as using Purell a couple times a week is at eradicating COVID.
Voting isnt pointless, it's just not nearly enough.
I don't really think that's the case. If you live in an exceptionally partisan area then there's little impact to voting.
That depends on your voting system.
Right, but this is a Canadian community about the recent Canadian election. The voting system is assumed.
In my riding, if you only had the option of liberal or conservative and a 100% turnout we would still have elected the same blue brick for the 4th time.
Usually this just means I get to vote for whatever party I like the platform enough of/like the leader.
I mean we've got the same system in the UK tbh.
It's shite, and most of the time you can get a donkey in power if you stick the right colour rosette on it, but last election we did see seats change power that had been held for a century.
I'm not really prepared to shoot anybody to get change. Voting is all we've got.
I mean I voted but I live in Alberta and don't live in Calgary or Edmonton. Tell me my vote mattered.
Here's a link to the results https://globalnews.ca/news/11130642/canada-election-2025-results-leduc-wetaskiwin/
Was from High River once upon a time, fully understand.
That vote increases funding to the area for progressive outreach and causes. You won't change the entire province with a wole new order but you are part of showing that Alberta isn't a lost cause to the left.
Seriously, this shows left wing lobbiests, charities, politicians, etc. That they can do something in the province. In the end all it may mean is easier access to insulin pumps or less cuts to medical services but that definitly matters.
It's easy to look at the big picture and grow hostile but your vote does matter.
I understand what you're saying, but a 50 point margin is definitely in "lost cause" territory.
I do try to remind myself when seeing results like this that there are still thousands of people who aren't inbred hicks though.
If you voted, it mattered
How many people didn't vote in those counties? Did they not vote because they were made believe they got no voice or because they would've voted republican but didn't think they were needed?
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Any time someone claims "my one vote doesn't matter" I reply with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_close_election_results
Yes, there are a lot of elections that are decided by a very small number of votes.
As the saying goes: "The only wasted vote is the one left uncast."
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Yeah, so the Conservatives won with like 80% in my riding. I voted, but I also wondered why while doing it. Man, I wish we had proportional rep.
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"One vote never changed anything," said ten million people.
"me reducing my carbon emissions won't change anything" said ten million people.
80 Percent of Global CO2 Emissions Come From Just 57 Companies, Report Shows
Let's stop blaming individuals for this.
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Canada out there making us feel jealous with their "multiple parties" and "meaningful votes"
I'm worried our multiple parties could disappear after this election :( I understand why it happened but I hope the trend doesn't continue to a two party liberal vs conservative system in Canada
The Bloc isn't going anywhere and the NDP will likely gain seats back next election with a fresh leader, especially if they pick a charismatic one.
Ya I don't think it will. Also remember we started with a two-party system. Political parties come and go.
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When will the liberal party pass the electoral reform they were elected to pass?
how come no one remembers that WE had a referendum for voting reform and WE voted it down? everyone keeps blaming the liberals when it was the dumb ass population who fucked that up.
They won't
They will with enough pressure. This negative attitude is useless.
And that pressure comes from the citizens who never put pressure on. I live in a fascist government situation in Canada simply because I am disabled. But people like you would tell me to stop complaining that at least I have some support. I have chased my MP to no effect or response at all. I have done the same with my MLA. I have educated my fellow Canadians. I have ranted and raved for decades and protested about how we are treated as second class citizens and you all are not standing up for us. None of you. I'm purple in the face from screaming into the void.
You expect people to stand up for you? You're delusional. My experiences at the bottom of Canadian society tell me otherwise.
Pressure as it "voting for other people" and "nationwide general strike" or pressure as in "Thoughts and prayers" online?
Because the first isn't going to happen, as evident by this election, and the second hasn't achieved anything so far, and will continue to achive nothing because it isn't actually pressure.
That's such a strawman as I have never said to "only vote." There are many things people can do to pressure the government.
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I'm Indigenous and I have family and friends who live throughout the north.
I couldn't believe the recent Ontario election for the representative for Mushkegowuk-James Bay ... the NDP candidate won it by 9 votes
And I have a ton of people in all those northern communities who all don't vote because none of them believe that it is worth it because they are Native.
Please show them these margins. it's crazy to me how small the number of votes are per riding and really puts everything into perspective
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Yeah, there were a lot of close ones this time.
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