Fairvote Canada
What is This Group is About?
De Quoi Parle ce Groupe?
The unofficial non-partisan Lemmy movement to bring proportional representation to all levels of government in Canada.
🗳️Voters deserve more choice and accountability from all politicians.
Le mouvement non officiel et non partisan de Lemmy visant à introduire la représentation proportionnelle à tous les niveaux de gouvernement au Canada.
🗳️Les électeurs méritent davantage de choix et de responsabilité de la part de tous les politiciens.
- A Simple Guide to Electoral Systems
- What is First-Past-The-Post (FPTP)?
- What is Proportional Representation (PR)?
- What is a Citizens’ Assembly?
- Why Referendums Aren't Necessary
- The 219 Corrupt MPs Who Voted Against Advancing Electoral Reform
Related Communities/Communautés Associées
Resources/Ressources
Official Organizations/Organisations Officielles
- List of Canadian friends of Democracy Bluesky
- Fair Vote Canada: Bluesky
- Fair Voting BC: Bluesky
- Charter Challenge for Fair Voting: Bluesky
- Electoral Renewal Canada: Bluesky
- Vote16: Bluesky
- Longest Ballot Committee: Bluesky
- ~~Make Votes Equal / Make Seats Match Votes~~
- Ranked Ballot Initiative of Toronto (IRV for municipal elections)
We're looking for more moderators, especially those who are of French and indigenous identities.
Politiques de modération de contenu
Nous recherchons davantage de modérateurs, notamment ceux qui sont d'identité française et autochtone.
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Compulsory voting is such an awful idea. In the end, only the populists profit off that, that promise easy solutions to complex problems and sound good for people who aren't interested in politics and what's necessary to actually fix stuff. This e.g. largely helped Bolsonaro in Brazil. The reality of people is that some are well-informed and some don't care about it, and forcing all of them to vote with the same weight is nothing the society benefits from.
As someone who moved from Australia to the US, I can tell you you're wrong.
Compulsory voting means you can't win by riling up your base with extremist nonsense to drive up turnout. Everyone is voting anyway, so you have to appeal more widely.
You can't drive down turnout to get a party with minority support to win, like russia did in the US.
Voter suppression by fascist politicians is much harder when people legally have to vote.
With non compulsory voting, it's always the working class who have the greatest number of pressures against voting. Compulsory voting corrects the class imbalance at the ballot box.
The idea that the masses are too stupid to be trusted with voting is an elitist lie.
I can see where your concerns come from, but you're literally posting this the day after Australia just had a huge swing against someone spouting the bullshit you've just described. Contrast this with America where it's not compulsory, and just voted in someone that fits what you've just described like a glove.
Bluntly speaking, can't help but feel the problem is elsewhere.
You couldn't be more wrong
You could try, but you couldn't.
It's true. I've voted in a compulsory nation and the shit you hear in the lines is nuts. A very large portion don't have any idea what's politically going on, they're just voting for someone they like the name of so they don't get fined. My mother used to vote for groups that directly fucked up her industry. She did not know any of this because she never paid any interest, she just heard one of them say they believe in Jesus.
As opposed to voters in non-compulsory nations like the US...oh wait.
I honestly think you should have to prove that you at least know the basic platforms of the candidates before being allowed to vote.
I know that competency tests have been historically used for racism and bigotry, but it could definitely be done properly.
It might be possible to do it right for a few elections, but something like that would be some ripe for abuse I don't think we should even have it on the table.
I've had similar thoughts about the average voter but imo the costs outweigh the benefits of some kind of competency test.