49.5% don't care enought to vote

[peaqueen]

A total of 16,018 ballots have been returned for a response rate of 51.5 %

Maybe we get what we deserve.

[peaqueen]

Sorry 1% more than that care
it is 48.5% who do not care.

[AdamSmith]

So if they don't care one way or the other, it shouldn't be that big a deal for Strahl to make an open market the law of the land.

[AdamSmith]

Adam, well said!!!

[wd9]

Actually 1/2 the ballots seems like it should be considered a very good turnout since at least 30% of the ballots go to addresses of people who don't farm or no longer care about it.

[cottonpicken]

Jesus,adam,your a bloody genuis.
Of course the absolute reverse logic would also be true.

[AdamSmith]

Of course!

But I don't think Harper leans that way!

[TOM4CWB]

PeaQueen;

In the vote on Ontario Wheat Marketing Board... for monopoly status to remain 66% or more had to vote in favour of retaining the monopoly.

The Ontario people pulled the vote at the last minute... but the principal remains.

A simple majority doesn't cut it when voting on property and Civil rights... in a free and democratic country.

[wanaka]

If the people who feel the CWB is the answer to an orderly wheat market then why should it not be all wheat in Canada be under the CWB jurisdiction not just us in the west. Then all farmers in Canada would be equal. Is this not the what the CWB is about equalizing farmers more so than the selling of our wheat.

[peaqueen]

Last election we had 32% ballot return.
This time with higher stakes and a paired down voters list we are at last count: 51.5%.

This turn out is lower than the percentages of return in Provincial and Federal elections.

Maybe it is just my thinking but this election had impact on peoples daily bread, should we not have expected a higher rate of return.

Which leads to the questions, does the low turnout reflect:

1/ almost 1/2 of farmers who do not care enough to participate
(obviously not the people I talk to)
or
2/ we have a voters list need to go trough a total review.

If the industry does not have confidence in the voters list, how valid is the process?

And indeed a voters list should define the players. As we know much opposition is generated from the teapot of people who have no vested interest in the economic reality of the debate.

It would be nice to get this right before the barley plebescite