Many of you will be on the edge of your ergonomically perfect computer chairs wondering how my Internet voting project went.
It didn't. I got no response on the registration (see my previous post) and Internet voting is now closed. To be fair I may have pushed a wrong button or perhaps I was approved and inadvertently deleted the approval e-mail. Or maybe my PIN number was sent off to some poor disenfranchised Floridian Gore supporter still trying to make the 2000 Presidential election right.
Before I get back to transit I wanted to talk about something that isn't being talked about by candidates in the municipal election. That's poverty.
Twenty eight thousand (28,000) people in Halton live below the Low Income Cut Off (LICO). The LICO is one way, probably the best way, to measure poverty.
Community Development Halton and Poverty Free Halton just put together a video about what it is like to live in poverty in Halton. You can see Being Poor in Halton by going to the CD Halton website.
A questionnaire was sent out to candidates and you can see their
answers too at www.cdhalton.ca
One more thing in the interest of full disclosure a young Burlington filmmaker named Graham Wood made the video. I've known Graham 25 years.
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I voted by internet last week. The process went smoothly. Now I have faith that someone in the cloud or elsewhere will count my votes on October 25.
You are right about poverty and other social and even economic issues have not been discussed but, whoever get elected will finish the pier and will keep the taxes down - and everyone at City Hall will get along very nicely.
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