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- From: vander@flab.fujitsu.co.jp (Mike van der Velden)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: astronauts voting
- Message-ID: <VANDER.92Nov10135705@vancouver.stars.flab.Fujitsu.co.jp>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 04:57:05 GMT
- References: <1992Nov9.141647.1939@ke4zv.uucp>
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- In-Reply-To: jdnicoll@prism.ccs.uwo.ca's message of 9 Nov 92 20:58:54 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov9.205854.11270@julian.uwo.ca> jdnicoll@prism.ccs.uwo.ca (James Davis Nicoll) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov9.193810.2996@julian.uwo.ca> crispin@csd.uwo.ca (Crispin Cowan) writes:
- > >In article <1992Nov9.180712.18824@julian.uwo.ca> jdnicoll@prism.ccs.uwo.ca (James Davis Nicoll) writes:
- >
- > >> With the exception of voters in Quebec (Quebec ran its own
- > >>'referendum' with slightly different rules), I do not think Canadians
- > >>were allowed absentee ballots in the recent 'referendum'.
- > >
- > >This is false. I have two friends who used absentee ballots for the
- > >referendum.
- >
- > The one recent posting I make that gets general commentary,
- > and I screw up. For the record, I was wrong.
- >
- > The funnt thing is, I could swear I read a posting from a
- > Canadian abroad who wasn't allowed to vote...
-
- Don't be so quick to apologize, James. You were right. Canadians
- abroad were not allowed to vote, unless they were from Quebec. I
- should know.
-
- I think Crispin is confused by the term "absentee ballot." In Canada
- there is a slightly different type of absentee ballot, known as the
- "advance poll," where you vote in the election/referendum a few days
- early if you know you're going to be out of town on voting day. On
- the other hand, if you are a Canadian citizen living abroad there is
- no mechanism in place by which you can cast an absentee ballot in the
- American sense of the word.
-
- I've lived my entire 27 years in Canada except for these past 5 months
- (I'll return in 2 more for a total of 7 months spent abroad), yet I
- was not allowed to vote in this important referendum. Silly, eh?
-
- However, if it turns out that citizens of Ontario living abroad were
- indeed allowed to cast their ballots while those of us from BC were not,
- it would be Yet Another Example of Western Alienation. :-)
-
- --
- Mike van der Velden
- s-mail: Distributed Systems Laboratory, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.
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- e-mail: vander@flab.fujitsu.co.jp
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