Thank you for the Scottish Libertarians link. Another candidate to put at the bottom of the list...
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CEC election 2017 (May 4th)
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Posted 7 years ago #
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Ha! we've had one libertarian respond to the Walk Cycle Vote pledges... Not keen on infrastructure or spending, but quite happy to endorse removing barriers identified by local residents on the grounds that the people know what they want
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"Another candidate to put at the bottom of the list"
Been wondering -
What happens if you mark (for instance) 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 7, 7
Would it be a spoiled ballot paper for 'not following the system' - even though the voting intent is very clear?
Posted 7 years ago # -
If you're going to do that, you might as well go '1,2,3,4'
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Well yes but.
There seems to be 'pressure' to fill in numbers against all candidates.
Some 'logic' that says if you don't put a vote against even people you REALLY don't want elected, somehow (after multiple transfers) you may have 'helped' to get them elected.
Posted 7 years ago # -
There seems to be 'pressure' to fill in numbers against all candidates.
If you really don't care which candidate out of preferences 5, 6 and 7 gets elected, then there's no advantage to filling out the last few boxes.
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"If you really don't care which ... "
I suppose that makes sense, though how about
1, 2, 3, 6, 6, 6, 7 or 1, 2, 3, -, -, -, 7
Posted 7 years ago # -
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An investigation by the standards commissioner concluded Cllrs Rose and Balfour had contravened the code of conduct, which says councillors should not raise matters relating to the conduct or capability of employees in public.
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I can understand why it's not a good idea for councillors to be allowed to badmouth officials (not just "in public"), but there are occasions where (perhaps) all else has failed...
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In that case, it's worth getting out your preferred random number generator for deciding preferences 4, 5 and 6.
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I suppose a lot of ballots will consist of two or three candidates you'd like to see elected, two or three candidates you either know nothing about or don't particularly want to see elected, and maybe one candidate you would be gutted about if they got elected. In that case, you've got to make a choice between the 'meh' candidates in order to put the abhorrent one last. If you've just got two or three 'meh' candidates and no abhorrent one, then don't bother ranking them.
Posted 7 years ago # -
Conservative's candidate for Drumbrae seeing the benefits of active travel:
https://mobile.twitter.com/mr_mark_brown/status/857555783990509568
Campaign News: Today's groundbreaking development sees me now two holes on my belt better off than at the start.
Shame he and his colleagues are so incoherent on making improvements to walking/cycling round the city.
Posted 7 years ago # -
I seem not to have a Green candidate in my ward. Rolls eyes, mutters under breath.
South Edinburgh is full of potential Green voters. What are they thinking? Could just have put a candidate up without a leaflet.
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@IWRATS - You definitely have a Green candidate.
Wikipedia's list of candidates seems to be accurate, at least for the Green candidates. One in every ward: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Edinburgh_Council_election,_2017
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I only have a conservative candidate as only one thing through door -) But reading the last posts I think they should name and shame officials in principle, so may be one thing through door is enough
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There is a Green candidate for every ward in Edinburgh, so everyone should have an option to vote Green if that's what they would like.
http://www.edinburghgreens.org.uk/site/meet-the-candidates/
@IWRATS, you probably already have a Green councillor, depending where in "south Edinburgh" you are. Southside/Newington is Steve Burgess; Morningside is Melanie Main; Craiglockhart is Gavin Corbett.
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Green candidates in every ward:
http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/news/article/2274/edinburgh_candidates_for_council_elections_announced
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"Campaign News: Today's groundbreaking development sees me now two holes on my belt better off than at the start."
Not sure that's due to cycling though(?)
Posted 7 years ago # -
He's been posting his FitBit stats: he's walking a lot when out canvassing/leafleting.
Posted 7 years ago # -
I didn't realise how weak competition was in some of the wards
Multiple wards with 5 candidates for 3 seats, Southside/Newington with 5 candidates for 4. That's insane and on a par with community council elections.
Contrast against the few with have 9/10 candidates for 4 seats which seems a much more reasonable number for actual representation rather than representation through necessity
Posted 7 years ago # -
On the other hand it's also amazing there are as many candidates as that... Putting up with all the agro for £16,893 pa.
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"Putting up with all the agro for £16,893 pa"
Bit more if you have a 'position'.
But yes, not much for any open-ended (timewise) job.
I think "agro" is (at times) an understatement.
Though of course some councillors get more grief from colleagues (often in the same party) than 'the public'!
Posted 7 years ago # -
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Should we or should we not; extend the tram line; build thousands of new affordable homes; roll-out more 20mph zones, impose rent controls on landlords; levy a so-called tourist tax; allow more building on the greenbelt to ease development pressure elsewhere; invest more in keeping our streets clean or in our schools and social services
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http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion/comment-capital-vote-has-to-come-first-1-4428250
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SNP MP Mhairi Black has predicted a surge in support for the party from teenage voters.
Votes will be given to 16 and 17-year-olds in the local government elections for the first time next week.
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Whilst I like Mhairi tremendously and accept that 16 and 17 year olds will support SNP. It is very old people who actually registr to vote and then actually turn up to vote?
Would be great if turn out was higher than 30 per cent and tht the uplift was young people.
Curious as has been pointed out, the election where you can vote for someone you can then meet regularly and try to influence or at least debate with produces largely apathy and ennui and tiny turnout.
Posted 7 years ago # -
Apparently at the Leith Walk hustings Cameron Rose stood in for the Conservative candidate as it was her first time election and attending the hustings wouldn't be fair on her.
Posted 7 years ago # -
Really? How will you learn you can do something if you don't try to do it? Can candidates be 16 or 17?
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I dearly hope that's been lost in translation somehow (perhaps a misfired joke from Cllr Rose?).
Either she thinks she has a chance of winning, and so should be at the hustings to convince people she can do the job, or she doesn't think she'll win this time, but is likely running to gain experience, and so she should be at the hustings to get that experience.
Posted 7 years ago # -
there are three wards in Scotland where the election wasn't contested at all (three seats, three candidates). All in the outlying areas (Shetland, Orkney and Mull of Kintyre).
Posted 7 years ago # -
On the 16/17 year olds voting thing - almost all of them will be in school so hopefully they will get more of a nudge to vote, if the schools are taking their civic development responsibilities seriously. Also they'll likely be living at home so more likely to be registered to vote than a 19-year-old living it large at uni. Once you've voted once, it might create a habit too. But I'm temperamentally an optimist
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