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2025 44th Ontario general election (Feb 27, 2025)

Mihairokov said:
Generally-speaking, signs are not a good barometre for determining who might win a riding. I believe Xiao Hua Gong had a good number of signs during the last mayoral election and that was all for naught.
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A true Gong Show, that was. Good point. But in KWT's case, she's has the incumbency advantage.
 
If you pardon the expression, a big reason for the impression of NDP "efficiency" is that they have so many incumbent seats already--and being incumbent, they're strategically favoured by default...
 
adma said:
If you pardon the expression, a big reason for the impression of NDP "efficiency" is that they have so many incumbent seats already--and being incumbent, they're strategically favoured by default...
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Definitely, but the Liberals had Toronto-Centre for twenty years and the NDP were the only party to reach me door-to-door before I voted. PCs are doing obnoxious GOTV via text. Liberals MIA.
 
Mihairokov said:
Definitely, but the Liberals had Toronto-Centre for twenty years and the NDP were the only party to reach me door-to-door before I voted. PCs are doing obnoxious GOTV via text. Liberals MIA.
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I have to admit that when voting last night I had no idea who the liberal candidate was. I chose Liberal anyway, but I don’t have high hopes.
 
Mihairokov said:
Definitely, but the Liberals had Toronto-Centre for twenty years and the NDP were the only party to reach me door-to-door before I voted. PCs are doing obnoxious GOTV via text. Liberals MIA.
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That's part of my point. Once you're in there, you have an "incumbent machine" in place; and the NDP just happens to have a lot of incumbent machines in place, many of them quite strong. And big deal if the Libs had Toronto Centre for 20 years; those were years when they were largely the "default party" for *all* of Toronto and the NDP was strategically disfavoured and marginalized (keep in mind that there's only one Toronto riding that's been NDP for *all* of this century--Toronto-Danforth--and in a post-Tabuns era in the event that the Libs reattain their McGuinty-era default-party dominance, even *that's* not a guaranteed eternal, judging from comparable federal and municipal results)
 
This really bothered me yesterday...

I went to vote in advance. The election worker gave me two ballots...

I wonder if the person entering the ballots into the machine would've accepted two ballots?

The lady I interacted with just said: "Please don't tell my boss".

This really doesn't bode well for election integrity, IMO.
 
Mind_the_gap said:
This really bothered me yesterday...

I went to vote in advance. The election worker gave me two ballots...

I wonder if the person entering the ballots into the machine would've accepted two ballots?

The lady I interacted with just said: "Please don't tell my boss".

This really doesn't bode well for election integrity, IMO.
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*Deliberately*?!?
 
Voted early last night! Set foot in the church I had to attend as part of grade school for the first time since the 80’s (still every bit as shitty and uninspiring looking as I unfondly remember). Voted Liberal (thanks for the cheque Doug!) but I’m not confident they’ll make a lot of inroads here in Ford Nation in central Etobicoke, though there are a surprising number of Liberal lawn signs around.
 
Towered said:
Voted early last night! Set foot in the church I had to attend as part of grade school for the first time since the 80’s (still every bit as shitty and uninspiring looking as I unfondly remember). Voted Liberal (thanks for the cheque Doug!) but I’m not confident they’ll make a lot of inroads here in Ford Nation in central Etobicoke, though there are a surprising number of Liberal lawn signs around.
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My riding is Markham-Unionville, but I seldom spend time in the riding as I mainly spend time downtown. I can relate to the fact that your riding is very likely to remain PC, but at least the community centre I went to vote in is relatively modern. Yesterday also happened to be my first time voting in any election, as someone who is particularly interested in provincial politics.
 
Towered said:
Voted early last night! Set foot in the church I had to attend as part of grade school for the first time since the 80’s (still every bit as shitty and uninspiring looking as I unfondly remember). Voted Liberal (thanks for the cheque Doug!) but I’m not confident they’ll make a lot of inroads here in Ford Nation in central Etobicoke, though there are a surprising number of Liberal lawn signs around.
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They *do* have a competitive candidate, though, in John Campbell. And there is a side to Etobicoke Centre that's more sensible-shoes Lib-inclined--remember that they only lost by a recount federally in '11, and had one of their better losing results provincially in '18...
 
My daughter who’s away at uni voted by mail yesterday. To ensure she voted we brought the ballot for her to complete. She asked me who to vote for, to which I replied, oh no, don’t ask me or anyone that. So we opened up Google and began to read the profiles, promises and accomplishments of the three leaders and Toronto Centre candidates. The CPC candidate was rejected out of hand. Kid remarked that KWT’s profile page is mostly empty chatter about having resided in the area, while Holly Rasky’s was much more about policies and commitments. In the end she voted Liberal, and we drove the ballot to the postal DC at Eastern Ave to ensure we made the deadline (must be received, not postmarked by election day to be counted). I also voted Liberal, and so did my wife, so that’s three. I’m still convinced that incumbency will see KWT victorious, but I’ve done all I can.

Second kid didn’t vote at all - as a polysci grad it frustrates me when people, especially women forgo their right to vote, but I got one kid on the right path, and there’s always the upcoming Federal.
 
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I live in a Conservative stronghold and am under no illusion he will not return. The other candidates, including the Liberal who no one has heard of or from since their announcement, are running pretty low key campaigns. I think I will decline/refuse my ballot just to stay in the process.
 
PinkLucy said:
I don't feel sorry for them, but they do have a right to vote. It's 2025, there should be an online option. That also helps housebound people in Northern Ontario, for example. They are simply trying to exercise their right to vote. And not all snowbirds are living a Toronto Life-esque winter. Have you seen snowbird trailer parks?
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As a software engineer, there is nothing more frightening to me than the idea of electronic voting of any kind. You can think that your system is "secure" or whatever (real world tests usually prove that they aren't), but the reality is that even if there's a minor chance of it happening, the last thing we want is to give a country like Russia the opportunity to hack and rig the election. Every day I thank the lord that ElectionsCanada insists on using traditional paper ballots, and nothing more.
 
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