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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The people have died is such a bad argument imo. If people died for the freedom to have abortions, that doesn't mean a pregnant woman has to have an abortion. True freedom means that you can choose whether to vote or not to, and people definitely didn't die to force everybody to vote, which just results in uninformed and non-caring people to vote for the first candidate that tells easy solutions to everything instead of admitting the complex reality.
I'm just saying, millions of voters stayed home during the U.S. election, and we ended up with someone turning that country into a fascist hellhole as a result of that.
Don't want to vote? If you fail to vote even with a "void" or "none of the above" option to meet you halfway with your lack of desire to follow the issues, then at that point that's on you and you deserve to be treated as what you are - someone who allows the country to slip further into the hands of wannabe dictators.
You have the right to choose no candidate for the election much like you have the right not to have an abortion. Not showing up is a different story.
Abortion is just not analogous to voting.
We're talking about laws so 'true freedom' is irrelevant in this context.
But mostly, compulsory voting doesn't eliminate the freedom to not vote. Just go in and write bart simpson like a certain percent always do.