I guess it's legal but something just doesn't feel right about it.
VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - A Facebook group is helping pair up Canadians willing to swap votes in the federal election to keep the Conservatives from winning seats in tight ridings
About 600 people have become members of the "Anti-Harper Vote Swap Canada'' group, and that includes several British Columbians making their plans known online.
Chantal Ingram wrote she's going to try to get her sister to join the group since she lives in the Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge-Mission riding. She says she doesn't live in any of the ridings affected but wants to help spread the word.
Mat Savelli the group's creator says it's a formalized way of strategic voting so people can feel like their votes count. He says the Facebook forum allows people to state their voting preferences and find someone who matches and who is willing to trade.
Votes swapping or pairing began on various websites during the federal election in the U.S. in 2000
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Hmm.. I actually think it's sort of an interesting concept.
So, every voter can use this to bring about a personal kind of merger of two parties?
Not bad!
Imagine if two hundred or five hundred thousand voters from each of the Liberal, NDP and Green parties started swapping votes strategically: do you think the three party leaders might start thinking about a combined Progressive Party, uniting the left?
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