Twitter Updates for 2009-05-13
- Coming down off of the stolen-from-the-preschooler’s-forgotten-Easter-stash chocolate buzz. Off to bed. Remember to vote tomorrow BC! #
- Today is election day in BC. Polls are open 8am-8pm. Pick an MLA, and choose whether to change our electoral system with #BC-STV. #bcvotes09 #
- Performed my civic duty. Have you? #bcvotes09 #
- In other news, it’s Bike To Work Week! #btww Today the Vancouver Area Cycling Coalition (VACC) had a pavilion set up at Arbutus/8th. Nom nom #
- RT @colmanjones: Compare deporting Demjanjuk to face WWII war crimes charges w Obama’s plea to “look fwd” and ignore evidence of US torture #
- Apparently didn’t convince the cbc that #bcvotes09 makes more sense than character-wasting #bcvotes2009. Tweets will be 1.4% less insightful #
- I mean, sure it’s confusing. We might be tweeting about the *1909* election. :D #
- If we were all hip, we’d be using #bcelxn anyway. #bcelection #bcvotes2009 #bcvotes09 #
- RT @vancouverparent And note #bcstv fans:the Liberals of the day won only 2 seats despite getting a third of the votes sez Wiki #bcvotes1909 #
- Look, a trending topic: #ausbudget09. I wonder which century *they’re* twittering about #
- The NFB rocks. In discussing the #bcvotes09 (that’s 1909, whippersnappers) I located this: http://www.nfb.ca/film/log_drivers_waltz #
- CBC reports that once again the #BCSTV ballots won’t be counted until *after* the candidate ballots. Prolly won’t know result until AM. :( #
- Off to softball and then rush back to settle into election-result coma. #bcvotes09 #
- Huh, the ride across town didn’t take nearly as long as I expected #
- Hey tweeps, back from my ball game. What did I miss? #
- Listening to #cbcradio while watching #cbctv on mute to get the #bcvotes09 results. @LeftCoastMama prefers Stephen Quinn to Ian Hanomansing! #
- My prediction from last night was BCL by 6 and #bcstv fail. I’m feeling pretty good about that right now #bcvotes #
- #cbc website currently shows #bcstv > 60% #
- RT @IdiocracyWatch: Twitsearch is down again! SNAP!!! http://tr.im/lcuV #bcelection [of all the nights to have a #twitterfail!!!] #
- #bcstv showing >61% right now! #
- #cbc declares Liberal majority in #bcelection #
- RT @BCSTV We’re currently trailing but less than 2% of polls have been reported so far. We’ve got a long way to go before the result. #bcstv #
- No matter what you think about the BCLibs vs the BCNDP, you have to be happy to see that ATTACK ADs failed to win an election #bcelection #
- #cbc just declared #BCSTV fail. #bcelection #bcvotes2009 #bcvote09 #bcvote #
- Carole James concession on right now. Will she resign immediately? #bcelection #bcvotes2009 #
- And Carole James concedes but does not resign. #GraspingAtStraws #bcelection #bcvotes2009 #
- As long as Carole James remains leader of the #BCNDP, the BC Liberals will continue to win elections. #fail #bcelection #bcvotes2009 #
- Here comes Gordo #bcelection #bcvotes2009 #
- RT @Tania94: A province will one day adopt STV and we’ll watch in envy after their first election and wish we did, yet we blew it twice. #
- RT @kabutar: @Tania94 Quote on CBC website – ‘Another province should try it first’ Cue HEADDESK. We’ll NEVER get anywhere like this #stv #
- In the end nothing changes in BC. A few seats shifted here and there. Electoral reform is dead for a generation. #bcvotes2009 #bcelection #
- Many ppl across Canada were looking to BC to provide leadership on electoral reform. @anndouglas @krisjoseph and others: BC has let us down. #
- Voter turnout was 42% . Absolutely shameful. #bcelection #bcvotes2009 #
- The political system is broken in our province and our country. 6 in 10 people don’t vote? 6 in 10 should STFU when they don’t like gov’t #
- How do we change the general population’s attitude about elections? How can we motivate? How can so many people take democracy for granted? #
- In Australia, you are bound by law to vote. Should BC and Canada adopt something similar? Should we use the big stick on the ignoratti? #
- Do people take their government for granted? Do they just figure that their government doesn’t affect their lives? Why so much apathy? #
- Is it the politicians? If we had a leader like Obama, would it motivate more people? Do we need rockstar politicians? #
- Does it matter? People interested in politics get informed and vote. Those who don’t, don’t. Do the informed make the best decision? #
