🚀 go-pugleaf

Bruce Becker (bdb@hotlips.gts.net) wrote:
: In article <3366E12B.68EE@passport.ca>,
: Chris Currie  <xtopher@passport.ca> wrote:
: |G. Green wrote:
: |> Derek Brown (cq884@torfree.net) wrote:
: |> :       HOW DO YOU WANT ME TO VOTE?  MAJORITY RULES!
: |> 
: |> :       ELECTRONIC DEMOCRACY
: |> Many moons ago, Erich Fromm described just such a vision of democracy in
: |> one of his many tomes.
: |
: |I think Derek is also forgetting the $50,000 deposit now required to
: |register a federal party (among other things). The election laws have
: |been changed to remove any "competition" from any but the big parties,
: |blowing out (among others) perrenial favs like the Rhinoceros Party...

: 	how many seats does each prospective party need to
: 	represent in order to be "official"?   I personally
: 	am voting for the boondoggle party, hurry there's
: 	a special on cod this week

To be officialy considered a party, an organization must contest at least
50 seats. 

While I would never vote for them, I do sort of miss the Rino Party... 
(for those of you new to this, the Rino Party is what some used a
political satire before TV shows like "This Hour Has 22 Minutes" 
:-) ).


Colin McGregor
President
Toronto Free-Net