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Message   Rob Mccart    AUGUST ABOLINS   Two party state   August 3, 2025
 7:48 AM *  

RM> In Canada it is our elected local Members of Parliament who decide
RM> who will be the candidate to run for the party in the next election.
RM> 'Ordinary' people aren't in on that..

AA>But.. if you are a card-carrying party member, you get to vote
  >for the specific leader for the party when they have those
  >leadership contests, no?

Yes, sorry about that. I either read something wrong or found wrong
information when I first checked online for the voting rules..

It turns out there are card carrying members for each party (400,000
of them for the Liberals) who do get to vote for who they want for the
party leader.. They just have to be registered at least 41 days before
that vote occurs so you have to plan ahead..

I just did a another general search online and again I found sites
that say all registered members (of age since you can join at 14)
can vote for the party leader and others that said we elect our
local MP's and only they can be involved in that vote..

Seems you can't trust everything you read online..
Imagine that!..   B)

It can get confusing though, Doug Ford in the 2018 Premier election
had over 2000 fewer votes than Christine Elliot, but he had more
'points', which are based on the population in individual ridings.
They mentioned that virtually never does the elected leader actually
have a majority of the total individual votes. I knew that happens
at times but I didn't know it's almost always the case..

The same thing happens in the actual election votes.
i.e.. In the election where Trump beat out Hillary Clinton, she had
more votes than Trump did but he won in more electoral districts.

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