The Longest Ballot Committee is a political movement in Canada, at one time affiliated with the Rhinoceros Party, [1] known for flooding ballots with a large number of independent candidates in protest of the first-past-the-post (FPTP) voting system and other electoral reform related issues. [2] The group has gained national attention, most notably during the 2022 Mississauga—Lakeshore federal by-election, the 2023 Winnipeg South Centre federal by-election, [3] and the 2024 Toronto—St. Paul's federal by-election. [4]
The committee's actions have prompted amendments to election laws to accommodate a greater number of names on the ballots [5] and generated significant controversy. [6]
In the June 2024 Toronto—St. Paul's federal by-election, it took hours for Elections Canada workers to count all the ballots. While polls closed at 8:30 p.m. ET, the final results weren't known until about 4:30 a.m. ... The agency said it was bogged down because there were dozens of candidates on the unwieldy, nearly metre (yard) long ballot — some of whom were proportional representation activists running as a protest to the country's first-past-the-post voting system. [4]
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The Longest Ballot Committee is a political movement in Canada, at one time affiliated with the Rhinoceros Party, [1] known for flooding ballots with a large number of independent candidates in protest of the first-past-the-post (FPTP) voting system and other electoral reform related issues. [2] The group has gained national attention, most notably during the 2022 Mississauga—Lakeshore federal by-election, the 2023 Winnipeg South Centre federal by-election, [3] and the 2024 Toronto—St. Paul's federal by-election. [4]
The committee's actions have prompted amendments to election laws to accommodate a greater number of names on the ballots [5] and generated significant controversy. [6]
In the June 2024 Toronto—St. Paul's federal by-election, it took hours for Elections Canada workers to count all the ballots. While polls closed at 8:30 p.m. ET, the final results weren't known until about 4:30 a.m. ... The agency said it was bogged down because there were dozens of candidates on the unwieldy, nearly metre (yard) long ballot — some of whom were proportional representation activists running as a protest to the country's first-past-the-post voting system. [4]
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