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Over the past few weeks, my home phone has been getting more and more phone calls. I have not been getting many answering machine messages, but the number of calls I have been receiving while I am present at home has skyrocketed.
I screen my calls. Actually, I never pick up the phone at home unless I know someone is coming over, so I do not encourage any telemarketers to contact me at my residence. However, during one weekend while I was at home, the phone rung four times in less than an hour. I picked up the phone on the fourth call and heard some woman asking me if I was going to support the Liberals in the upcoming election. I told them that I would vote, but did not specify whom. The lady noted that I was an undecided voter, and let me hang up.
I have been hearing of other people getting calls from the various parties urging them to vote, and I find it quite.. annoying. I do not remember this type of phone campaign during the '2006 Canadian federal election' though.
I was undecided as to when I would vote, be it in the morning or after I come home from badminton in the evening. In either case, I would be cutting it close as the polls open at nine and close at nine.
I got up late this morning because my alarm did not go off (it was turned off and was never turned back on). Since I was running late, I decided to go and vote in the morning before I left for work. So I got my voting cards, identification, etc. and headed down to the voting booth. I got to the station and handed in my documents. The poll officer took a look at my election card and told me that I was to vote at the school down the street because my card said that I had to vote at poll station 80. The station that was in my building was number 81.
What?!?
There was a piece of paper specifically written for residents of my condo stating that we were to vote at the polling station downstairs, but because it was a different polling station number, I was unable to vote there? Now all of the stuff I got for the election seems even more confusing. Apparently there were several other people who had come down to the room and were similarly turned away.
I did not have the time to argue so I went back up stairs to get ready for work, but I will have to go back after badminton to figure this all out.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007 at 21:55:02 (UTC)
never, Never, NEVER tell these people about your voting intentions!
If you're paranoid, you can recall the incident with Tom Wappel where he refused to help out a constituent because he did not vote for him.
If you're honest....the party who you professed support for will be so happy they will reward you by....putting you on their telemarketing lists! You'll then get a barrage of newsletters and propoganda from said party and they'll start calling you during *other* election campaigns (e.g. federal).
--- HKL (speaking from experience...)
Grinning Reaper
Thursday, October 11, 2007 at 04:01:18 (UTC)
Aw crap.
Hwan
Friday, October 12, 2007 at 03:37:00 (UTC)
I should have told them that I was going to vote Bloc.
QYV