Without giving out too much personal info, it was the logo for a very large district school board.
ETA: I am not a teacher though.
See, this kind of drives me crazy. 25 years ago, in the middle of a recession, the NDP didn’t do so great, so we’re all going to fret about Rae days coming back. If we held every party to that standard we’d be out of parties to vote for.
Well then, you obviously have to vote Conservative, as they are the only party without a historical blemish, right?
Errr… nope but thanks!
I’ve gotten more political phone calls in just the last two days than any other election, ever, and probably more than the next two closest combined.
Someone is taking this seriously. Too bad it wasn’t the idiots who nominated Ford as the PC leader.
Not sure about 25 years, but the next liberal group of wannabe MPP’s are gonna have some splaining to do, come next election.
So spoil the ballot or hold your nose, your only options.
But that’s exactly it. Next election the Liberals will have to explain how they learned their lessons, Conservatives will have to stand on their last few years of governing and the NDP will get judged on Rae days.
Do they even count spoiled ballots any more? I thought they did away with that.
You have the option of declining your ballot, by saying to the returning officer “I decline” and handing the unmarked ballot right back when they hand it to you. These ballots are separated from all others and the total count is reported in the official results as declined ballots. If you take your ballot to the booth and either don’t mark it, put your X any where outside the circles, or otherwise mess it up, the ballot will probably be classified as rejected. The total count of rejected ballots is also included in the official results.
If you really can’t bring yourself to vote for any of your local candidates, declining the ballot probably makes the clearest statement of your intent.
Well, I voted, quick and easy, and I see there is now a new voting system. The paper ballots are being scanned and automatically tabulated. I hope that means we get results soon after the polls close.
I wouldn’t normally watch election results in another province, but I will be watching tonight. I really hope that Ontario has rejected Doug Ford. My mom voted and she was going to vote Liberal, but at the last minute, literally in the booth, she switched to NDP. I’m hoping that happens with a lot more people.
The person before me at the poll “declined” her ballot. That is, she handed it to the poll officer to be processed through the scanner, then asked why he didn’t give it back to her so she could mark who she was going to vote for.
I hope so, too, but I think the latest CBC analysis was probably quite accurate: an unexpected NDP surge is possible but unlikely, and the vote distribution still points to a PC majority. I must confess that I almost turned back on the way to the polling station – it was warm, and the street was just a sea of blue PC signs and I kind of felt that in this riding I was just wasting my vote.
Oh, well. I enjoy voting. The staff is always so friendly, and unlike the advance polls that may be in outlying areas, here you get to meet your neighbors. In this case, though, those would be the misguided cretins who are mostly voting PC! 
Even as a lifelong small c conservative, I couldn’t bring myself to vote for Dodgy Dougy. I even briefly considered officially refusing my ballot.
I feel the best outcome for Ontario right now is a P.C. minority, so I held my nose and voted N.D.P. for the first time in my voting career. I hope enough voters do the same for my desired outcome. The only issue there is we may be back at the polls in a year or so. I don’t see those two parties working together. Perhaps a Liberal/N.D.P. coalition can keep the worst of the worst at bay.
I fell away from the conservatives in the last couple of Federal elections, but was going to vote PC this time, until they nominated Ford. Now I’m hoping for an NDP minority.
I figure even as a minority government, Ford can do too much damage, and even a poor win will still validate his choice as leader to the idiots who voted for him. They need to be slapped down, or else this kind of no-information election campaign will become the new normal, and that doesn’t serve anyone well.
Meanwhile, an NDP minority probably won’t be able to get everything they want enacted, and while I don’t agree with everything in their platform, at least I think they’d take the job of running the province seriously. Ford will likely turn out to be the same sort of anti-government type as Trump, and will just deliberately do a bad job because he’s got no respect for the job to begin with.
If Ford doesn’t win a majority, can he stay on as leader? Surely the knives would be out.
CBC is now projecting a PC majority government. NDP is a close second but not nearly close enough. Liberals are nowhere, though they will have enough seats to retain official party status.
Okay Initial results are in and CBC is calling for a Ford majority
The way I see the result so far, is that the PC’s win, Liberals lose and lose hard. NDP did not win, but they did not lose either which is important in politics as far as I am concerned. The why of their success should be examined however. I am of the belief that their gains were based on a protest vote against the liberals and the anybody but ford , on top of their base vote. The question on my mind, are they going to examine the election forensically and determine what they need to do to keep those protest votes, or are they going to drink the kool aid and believe that their base has increased heavily.
I can’t watch! Ugh!