November 19 is just around the corner and its time to get your vote on. Across the Province of BC, municipal voters will be heading to the polls. Here’s hoping last time’s abysmal showing of 31 percent ( that’s right – less than a third of all eligible voters) doesn’t repeat. Initial estimates based on the numbers turning out for advanced polling seems to be pointing out this year may have a higher turnout. Hurray!
One of my favourite things about any election is the range of videos and ads that appear in the lead up. While there is always the more generic “thoughtful” ads jammed with canned music, earnest looking political sermons and glossy images of our “Vancouver”, there’s also the guerilla videos produced by various parties and cadidates that are meant to get you laughing all the way to the polling station. To give you a flavour for what’s out there, here are a few recent creations by We Back the Juice Man. The particularly fun ones are the faux attack-ads. If you want to see some real attack ads, check out the NPA’s Take Back the City. I’d put them up here, but they are kind mean. Anyway, enjoy!