Episode 62, November 1, 2008 - Swap the vote!




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Summary: Check the polls, then download Dave's conversation with Gerry Kirk of votepair.ca. Gerry is a software guy from Sault Ste. Marie that decided to take strategic voting in the recent Canadian election to new levels with his aforementioned website. The basic idea was that if you thought your vote might have more in effect in a different part of the country you could sign up at Gerry's site and be paired with someone else. You would, in essence, swap votes. As idealistic as it sounds it turned out that vote swapping probably affected at least two ridings in the country. Pretty cool. You never know when there will be another Canadian election as this is a minority parliament, so if you are interested, check Gerry's site out, oh and follow him on twitter... Heck follow Dave and Isabelle too. Music in this episode from Startlefish and Chris Belsito