Election Day

Today is election day in Ontario.

I will be voting after work as usual and I am making my decision on the party leaders rather the local candidate.  I don’t even know the name of the person I am voting for.  MPPs are mostly ineffectual and they vote depending on how their leader tells them to.

My ideal election process would be that there should be no political parties and that we vote for the local candidate and the Premier separately.  This would force you to make your decision based on the the issues and not with the us/them of party politics.  The election of the Premier should be based on the popular vote and not based on ridings.