Ontario municipal elections - anyone else voting today?

[Lucy Goosey]

I'm such a nerd - I still get excited when it's time to vote, even though I don't really believe that one vote makes any difference in the big picture. Also, I'm voting strategically, not idealistically, for Mayor (of Ottawa) - I'm not so much voting for Watson as I am for "not-Larry-O'Brien." (I suspect a lot of Torontonians are voting against a particular candidate in that mayoral race, too. :))

[BolivarianHero]

1. I voted for Doucet

I knew Watson would win HUGE (both because of Larry Laffer's unpopularity and because Watson appealed to a lot of broadly progressive constituencies that would generally back a candidate like Doucet in most elections) and I wanted the benefit of both voting my conscious and getting Leisure Suit Larry down to 3rd place.

[iverglas]

2. I almost forgot!

It was 7:23 when I glanced at my computer clock and suddenly remembered I was supposed to vote, and it took another 20 minutes to get the co-vivant dressed and moving. Gone the days when I would have been scrutineering and vote-pulling somewhere ... well, not this municipal round, anyhow.

I hate voting strategically. Third time I've done it in nearly 4 decades of voting now. Probably shouldn't have, but doing otherwise wouldn't have mattered. Could have stayed home, all round. I wonder whether, if I'd had a clue about who was running for school board and voted on that one, it would have mattered. ;)

[BolivarianHero]

3. I registered French Catholic...

I'm an atheist and Anglophone, but my little stepbrother goes to a Catholic French school so I figured I'd vote in that one. Didn't plan on voting this cycle because I don't follow school board politics, but it's kind of moot because nobody was on the ballot.

[iverglas]

4. yikes

Get that registration switched pronto!

It isn't just for voting -- it's how your property taxes get directed. You will be part of the problem if you don't get that fixed. ;)