POL214Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pragmatism, Get Out The Vote, The Globe And Mail
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People who use to not be able to vote: woman, those who didn"t have enough property, aboriginals, various ethnic/racial/religious groups. All these restricions lited by 1960, then established in the charter. Electoral systems: a system by which the votes that people cast are translated into the representaion of poliical paries in the house of commons. Elecions are run by an independent, non-parisan agency of parliament called elecions canada. What are they for: choosing representaives, choosing governments, debaing ideas and policy preferences. Have to be at least 36 days in length. Drop the writ = start electoral campaign: puts in moion the legal apparatus on rules of elecions. When we vote, we vote for members of parliament, not party of prime minister: local representaives, are the building blocks of canadas electoral system, indirect process. Typically party that has the most seats = wins government: commanding the house of commons. All agree with the policies and have similar ideas for government.
