Longest Ballot Announces Plans for
2025 Federal Election

The Longest Ballot Committee has announced its plans for the upcoming general election, hot on the heals of Justin Trudeau's resignation announcement. On its X page, the committee says:

"We are happy to announce that for the upcoming 2025 general election we will be launching two long ballots. One in Pierre Poilievre's riding of Carleton (Ottawa) and one in Chrystia Freeland's riding of University-Rosedale (Toronto).

"We need your help getting these ballots as long as possible, so if you want to help us make history just email your full name, phone number, and the riding you would like to run in to longestballot@gmail.com

"As Parliament is now prorogued, Bill-65 and all the possible changes to the Elections Act intended to make long ballots more difficult have been thrown into the garbage. This is great, but honestly we were looking forward to the challenge of having to collect thousands of additional signatures. This is why, for the upcoming longest ballots, we will be collecting unique nomination signatures (instead of getting 100 people to sign 100 forms like we have done in the past). Because of this change in strategy, it is very important that you sign up as soon as possible so we can start collecting your nomination signatures right away!

"If you live near one of the two ridings we will be working in and want to help collect signatures please let us know!

"This also means we most likely cannot do the planned longest ballot in Doug Ford's riding of Etobicoke North for the unscheduled Ontario provincial election due to time constraints so if you signed up for that don't worry, you can sign up for one of the new ones instead!"

The announcement is accompanied by a promotional video. To view the video click here.

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This article was published in

Volume 55 Number 1 - January 6, 2025

Article Link:
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