p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- One could be forgiven thinking there are but five parties contesting the 2008 Canadian elections: the Conservatives, Liberals, NDP, Green party and Bloc Quebecois.

But that’s not the case, not even nearly, David Akin makes it clear in his On The Hill blog.

“Even though the NDP has had more trouble than other parties with some of its candidates, it managed to get on the ballot in each of Canada’s 308 ridings by the Elections Canada cutoff date of Sept. 22,” he says, going on »»»

In fact, it was the only party to do that.

Parties will scramble to get any warm body on the ballot by that cutoff date because Elections Canada sets the national spending limits based on the number of voters in each riding that the party has fielded a candidate — by that cutoff date of Sept. 22.

So anyone dropping off after that date does not affect a party’s spending limit.

So, no matter what happens after Sept. 22 to candidates who end up bailing for smoking dope, running around naked, or saying mean things on the Internet about others, here’s the number of ridings each party is officially contesting on Oct. 14

And here they are »»»

On The Hill - NDP only party on 308 ballots , October 6, 2008

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