Now there's more to this then just a typical election:
CTV.ca | Ontario residents heading to the polls Quote:
........Extra ballot on election day
Voters will also get an extra ballot on election day, to be cast in the province's first referendum in more than 80 years.
The referendum question is: "Which electoral system should Ontario use to elect members to the provincial legislature?'' Options will be the existing so-called "first past the post'' electoral system, or a mixed member proportional system.
The proposed mixed member proportional system would give citizens two votes -- one for the political party of their choice and another for a local candidate.
Advocates say electoral reform would bring a balance of power in the legislature that better reflects the popular vote.
Karen Bird, a political science professor from McMaster University, said the system would mean voters would be able to choose their favourite local candidate, and the party they would like to see in power.
"What we would get under this proposal is a legislature where the proportion of seats held by parties is more or less exactly reflective of the proportion of the vote for those parties among the public," Bird told CTV Newsnet.
"So what this has going for it is that it is a more accurate way of translating how voters are expressing their opinion into seats."
Faith-based schools
Ontario's political party leaders spent the final day before the election campaigning furiously in and around Toronto, as polls showed voters could elect another Liberal majority government.
McGuinty continued his attack on Tory and the faith-based schools issue.
"The Conservative plan to take a half a billion dollars out of our publicly funded schools and divert that to private religious schools is a bad idea,'' McGuinty told supporters in Pickering.
"It's going to hurt our kids, it's going to hurt our province."
McGuinty said he supports a parent's right to send their children to the school of their choice, but he said Ontario children will get the best education in the public system.
However, Tory stuck to his guns on his religious schools funding proposal while visiting 11 ridings in Toronto, where the Conservatives don't hold a single seat.
Despite internal pre-election polls showing the idea wasn't popular, Tory insisted Tuesday it was still the right thing to do. He said he has demonstrated his ability to take on the toughest issues, saying "that's what leadership's really all about."].....
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There's a pile more information on that link but just too much to debate about, so I picked the two main points:
#1 - Do you feel it's a good idea to change the election system where at the polls you could vote for the political party you want to rep where you live and another to vote for who you want to run the country?
#2 - Do you think it's a good idead for a provience/state to fund faith based schools with tax payer's money?