Yes, the simple fact is that politicians should never be left in charge of their own election rules. We need independent bodies to take over. Whether it’s drawing electoral boundaries or deciding on electoral reform, politicians have way too much skin in the game to be calling the shots.
It is worth pointing out that even though this position is rather obvious (at least from the voter’s’ perspective) the only organization I’ve ever heard advocating it is the longest ballot committee which is affiliated with the satirical Rhino party.
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There’s simply no explanation of their actions except that they want to rig the boundaries. Literally nothing else even remotely attempts to explain what they’re doing.
Meanwhile, conservatives online are justifying it with lies, claiming that Pierre Poilievre’s riding was gerrymandered, and that’s why he lost Carleton.
This is the state of conservative politics now — their politicians do horrible things in office, then their acolytes online try to normalize it by peddling disinformation.
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If they do indeed try this it will be a big mistake.
It is all but certain a judge would block these new boundaries if MLAs decide to draw their own, and the end result would current boundaries being used.
That is worse for the UCP than the majority report from the EBC, which would probably give them an extra seat over current boundaries.
It’s just all so stupid.
PurfectProgressive on
I think this should all scare us, even those not living in Alberta because I have no doubt that this is a test to see how much they can get away with and they won’t hesitate to take it federal if the CPC ever gets power again.
I’m not sure how much the federal government can do to stop this but it needs to be treated as a hard red line. Because this is our democracy at stake.
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Yes, the simple fact is that politicians should never be left in charge of their own election rules. We need independent bodies to take over. Whether it’s drawing electoral boundaries or deciding on electoral reform, politicians have way too much skin in the game to be calling the shots.
It is worth pointing out that even though this position is rather obvious (at least from the voter’s’ perspective) the only organization I’ve ever heard advocating it is the longest ballot committee which is affiliated with the satirical Rhino party.
There’s simply no explanation of their actions except that they want to rig the boundaries. Literally nothing else even remotely attempts to explain what they’re doing.
Meanwhile, conservatives online are justifying it with lies, claiming that Pierre Poilievre’s riding was gerrymandered, and that’s why he lost Carleton.
This is the state of conservative politics now — their politicians do horrible things in office, then their acolytes online try to normalize it by peddling disinformation.
If they do indeed try this it will be a big mistake.
It is all but certain a judge would block these new boundaries if MLAs decide to draw their own, and the end result would current boundaries being used.
That is worse for the UCP than the majority report from the EBC, which would probably give them an extra seat over current boundaries.
It’s just all so stupid.
I think this should all scare us, even those not living in Alberta because I have no doubt that this is a test to see how much they can get away with and they won’t hesitate to take it federal if the CPC ever gets power again.
I’m not sure how much the federal government can do to stop this but it needs to be treated as a hard red line. Because this is our democracy at stake.