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Dont Ever Listen To Those Who Claim "Voting is Pointless" (lemmy.ca)

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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 35 points 13 hours ago

I'm Indigenous and I have family and friends who live throughout the north.

I couldn't believe the recent Ontario election for the representative for Mushkegowuk-James Bay ... the NDP candidate won it by 9 votes

And I have a ton of people in all those northern communities who all don't vote because none of them believe that it is worth it because they are Native.

[-] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 5 points 4 hours ago

I heard that there were some communities where voting closed super early. Under circumstances like that, I can sympathise with people who feel that there's no point in voting; there were people who went out to vote but weren't able to, and that must be so demoralising

[-] TheBloodFarts@lemmy.ca 24 points 12 hours ago

Please show them these margins. it's crazy to me how small the number of votes are per riding and really puts everything into perspective

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 10 points 9 hours ago

I'm in a riding that is consistently held by the conservatives, and not by a small amount. There are something like 40-50k votes cast in my riding and the reference between lib and conservative was about 6k.

I still go out and vote, because some day the 6k difference might be 12 individual votes....

If the conservatives win by a handful of votes, and I didn't vote, I don't think I could forgive myself.