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Hey thanks everyone re: my shaw TV appearance. It wasn't a purple shirt, just brown and orange, but it looks purple from far away. Hope I did well.

But I can't believe any of you have commented on this yet:

OSCAR FECH HAS 65 VOTES.

That means 65 people in this city believe there is gold hidden under city hall and that someone is trying to assassinate Oscar. That is awesome.
gotta spoil the ballot somehow
     
     
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Nenshi leading by over 8000!
     
     
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Just that votes at 127 of the stations have been fully counted and reported. The population distribution between the stations isn't even, size of each poll area is based on population as well as on the actual size of the area.
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What does the 127/241 stations reporting mean?

[I do realize that not all stations are equal]
127 polls have been counted out of 241 in total.
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What does the 127/241 stations reporting mean?

[I do realize that not all stations are equal]
Stations are voting stations. When you go to vote you vote at a "voting station." Sometimes people use the word polls in this context as well. There are 241 in the city. The ones that had huge lineups will be last to be counted. Smaller ones come in first, because they don't take much time to count.
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I think it's humourous that beyond the big 3, the leaders appear to be people who have withdrawn from the campaign.

Higgins is conceding as I type this.
     
     
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Can someone explain the poll stations to me. If I look at my ward, ward 7, there are more polling stations for alderman than mayoral. Why is that? were there more polling stations for alderman? I thought they were the same location.
     
     
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Nenshi leading by over 8000!
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Nenshi's lead now over 7000 votes.

I want it "over 9000!"
You got it - 9300 at the moment.

That's it, I'm calling this one.
     
     
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http://www.660news.com/news/local/articl...aheed-nenshi-will-be-calgary-s-new-mayor

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9,300 vote difference now. Man, listening to Barb Higgins is painful - she talks to slow, I couldn't listen to that for 3 years.
     
     
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What does the 127/241 stations reporting mean?

[I do realize that not all stations are equal]
Well, the earliest polls to report were the smallest (hospitals and assisted living) and it is generally safe to say that the bigger the poll, the longer it takes to count. So it is pretty safe to say that well under half the votes are in for mayor.
     
     
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Um, seriously?

Don't you have to run under your legal name?
     
     
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The sheer amount of action tonight is amazing. It took till now to catch up in this thread.... Nenshi is winning! Over 9000!

Unfortunately, Anti-bridge Taylor is beating Druh.

Barb is talking now...
     
     
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pashak closed the gap
     
     
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21% of eligible voters turnout counted now... so we're about 1/2 way to the worst case scenario any of the talking heads have predicted for turnout
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Also want to mention that the guy who interviewed me on shaw, Brenden Parker, was really great. He said he usually does sports, but I think he did an awesome job at the political interview and he made the interview go really well. Kudos to him.
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