Have you voted yet?

One member of the household voted online yesterday. The only flaw in the system is that when one goes back into the voting after having voted, to test the PIN number security, a page appears saying "Try Again". It should say "Sorry your PIN has been used, you have voted already" Also would it have been too much to design the software to produce a receipt page, which would show your selections on a printable page. These printed pages would be an admirable recount ballot.

How many disreputable candidates (do we have any) are asking householders for their unused PIN number envelopes? Just a thought, but a percentage of the increased vote could be due to zealous campaign workers using the disaffected voters PINs.

One week to go

One week to go and the unofficial poll shows the current mayor on his way to another term. As one correspondent said this week Campion is finishing strongly. Pity she hadn't started to work in January like a serious candidate.

What we get for our money!

Look carefully in the latest YMCA blurb, that we all received on the weekend. Careful observers will notice on the right side of the double page, second one down, the Town's ad. Same size as all the others, it leads me to believe that the Town may even had to pay for it. Nowhere in this screed do we see any acknowledgment of the thousands and thousands of dollars the Town pays to maintain this magnificent edifice. Pity!

I guess the election is over for some!!!

The opinion is in - Northumberland News has made its picks! Proposing that the status quo be maintained in the strongest possible way what does that say for the News's progressivism? Endorsing all of the incumbents and then playing it safe by putting the strongest woman candidate on and saying that Stan Frost should be on because he only lost by a few votes last time does not do it for me.

I strongly disagree; that this slate is anything but a change, but then if you don't want change go for it.

The loneliness of the long distance candidate

Just came back from a visit downtown (Thursday 8pm) and noticed two candidates events - dropins. Gerry Drage had one person at his and Lloyd Williams had nobody in his surgery. Perhaps the election is over, we certainly don't see anything to the contrary.

Ten days to go!

Seen any candidates yet? Nothing doing in the local scene, but I'm hopeful something will emerge to make us all sit up (surely you jest - ed).

I had a conversation with a Port Hope candidate last night and this person raises the spectre of the feminazis from Ward 2 taking over the Town. Now I don't go that far but with the plethora of females supporting Linda Thompson I can see how such a theory could develop. Coupled with the allegation (from the candidate) that in matters of Planning and Finance the Ward 2 councillors get two votes to the Ward 1 councillors only getting one the idea of Ward 2 dictating to Ward 1 is a theoretical possibility.

Can This Machine Be Trusted? more about voting machines!

Now Time magazine has got into the debate TIME.com: Can This Machine Be Trusted? -- Nov. 6, 2006 -- Page 1

More for the conspiracy theorists

Read this about voting machines and just ponder whose paranoia is twitching?

U.S. Investigates Voting Machines’ Venezuela Ties - New York Times

14 days to go

In two weeks time we will be at the polls, unless of course you vote online. One question remains after looking at the process is - how do you have a recount?

But back to the excitement of the campaign (sarcasm of course - ed). Has anybody seen a candidate yet? I have had seen two. But there are 14 days left.

So what did you folks think of the ACM, the format and the candidates? Probably not much if you go by the number of people who left at the first opportunity. As I said earlier I saw a couple of duds and and a couple of standouts and the rest were - the rest. Was it only me or did anyone else feel that some of the incumbents really looked as though they didn't really want to be there. And how long can Lloyd Williams employ the bizarre campaign strategy of conceding the race every time he opens his mouth. He stated that he will spend $8,000 of his own money to be in the race - he should have bought lottery tickets and had some fun instead.

What a bunch!!

If that is the lineup in Hamilton Township God help us! Not an original idea in the place and all they want to do is to fight a non-existent war with Cobourg. This pathetic plethora of parish pumping politicians want to look good to the grey hairs of Hamilton Twp. BTW who lives in Hamilton Twp anymore - how about Cobourg North, that's where the tax base is. And the way to look good to the local chapter of the Lanark Landowners Association is to beat up on Cobourg all the time missing the point that cooperating with Cobourg on local issues would lower operating costs. Water for instance: HT has paid about 5 million dollars for a municipal system to cover Baltimore on a limited way - twice the cost it would have been to bury a water main to cover a much larger area. Don't talk to me about the policing costs versus coverage. When the Town covered the Twp they had a consistent coverage of all the department at all times. Now the OPP is in all they did was to transfer 12 more officers to the County. That's only 3 actual people on each shift - for the County. The election question for this bunch of dimwits should be "Where is the OPP?" not "Oh Cobourg is so bad to us!!"