Thursday, January 19, 2006

Voting

So Monday is election day. I was just thinking about something a friend of mine said the other day. He said that voting for the NDP is a waste of a vote, because they're obviously not going to win in this riding. The part about them not winning in this riding is true. Norm Doyle, the Conservative candidate, is most likely taking this riding again. However, the idea of not voting for the NDP just because they're not going to win is bullshit. The way I see it, the point of voting is to vote for who you WANT to win, not who you THINK is going to win. This is the whole point of democracy: you vote for who YOU want, not what you think everyone else wants. That way, every voice should (though with our electoral system not every voice will, which is why I'm a proponent of proportional representation, but that's a different rant) be heard. I want the NDP to win in whatever riding I happen to be in at any given time. As such, I'll be voting for Mike Kehoe on Monday, because that's what I want. Do I want the Liberals or Conservatives to win? No. Which means it would be completely asinine to vote for either of them just because I don't think the NDP candidate is going to win.

posted by Jonathan at 5:01 PM