Quebec Election

[bcholmes]

First: boo to Quebec about that whole veil thing.

Second: bizarre election. First minority in a century, and (Premier) Jean Charest has lost his seat. (I love results like this: electorate says, "we'll grudgingly give your party a small win, but your leader has to go.")

Third: a CBC commentator suggested that someone could just "give" Charest their seat. I think people should know how parliament works before they get to be CBC commentators.

Edit: CBC is now reporting that they found more Jean Charest ballots. I guess they were in a box, somewhere. So Charest keeps his seat.

Comments

[redbird]

I'll stipulate not only that you believe what you're saying, but that your data are valid.

For this purpose, it doesn't matter: people who believe there was fraud (or any other crime) react in the same way whether their beliefs are correct, partially correct (in this case, that could include minor ballot-stuffing, or both sides cheating in ways that cancelled each other out), or completely wrong. If significant numbers of people believe there was vote fraud, they're going to be pushing for things they think will reduce the chance of fraud.