Pair Vote - Strategic Voting for 2008 Canadian Federal Election

Bloc party supporters and political pundits, decide what ridings the Bloc party has the best chance of winning. Refer to this list of 68 ridings with the closest contests.
Just a reminder that the pair vote process will use the riding rankings here to allocate seats, so be careful what you wish for.
Deadline to vote: Friday, [...]

Liberal party supporters and political pundits, decide what ridings the Liberal party has the best chance of winning. I plan to add to this list soon, but figured I’d get it up sooner than later so people could start adding and voting for their picks. Refer to this list of 68 ridings with the closest [...]

Holy cow. In Elizabeth May’s words:
“I’d rather have no Green seats and Stephen Harper lose, than a full caucus that stares across the floor at Stephen Harper as prime minister, because his policies are too dangerous,” she said.
So determined is May to keep Harper from power she also told the Star she wants Liberal Leader [...]

NDP party supporters and political pundits, decide what ridings the NDP party has the best chance of winning. I plan to add to this list soon, but figured I’d get it up sooner than later so people could start adding and voting for their picks. Refer to this list of 68 ridings with the closest [...]

Green party supporters and political pundits, decide what ridings the Green party has the best chance of winning. I plan to add to this list soon, but figured I’d get it up sooner than later so people could start adding and voting for their picks. Refer to this list of 68 ridings with the closest [...]

Greg Morrow of democraticSpace (my favourite election site) posted a few days ago his list of battleground ridings, 68 in all.
Catch the sad irony? That means only about 25% of the total ridings matter in this election, the rest are already decided. The people in a whopping 75% of ridings who want to vote for [...]

Once the election is over, vote reform will disappear from the headlines. We have 3 more weeks to build awareness through healthy, informed dialogue. The best stories are the ones you already know - your personal story, how the voting system has let you down, time and time again. The collection of voter stories on [...]

One registered voter sent me this email:
I’m interested in pair voting but I’m worried that it’s too easy for the system to be sabotaged. It seems like it would be pretty easy to automate the process of entering false sets of information. The main bottleneck to such tactics would be that each form submission would [...]

It seems pair voting is now one of the hot stories at this point in the election. I’ve gotten over a dozen requests for interviews over the past week,
Pair vote tour, coming to a town near you:

Sudbury. Interview with CBC Radio One Sudbury tomorrow (Friday Sept 19) at 7:15 am. I’ll be explaining how pair [...]

Nice to see Elections Canada finally made a decision on vote swapping.. Now no one needs to worry about legal issues. EC is right in pointing out that there is some risk involved - there is no guarantee that the person you pair with will carry out the vote swap. But, when your vote in [...]