Two voting initiatives are raising questions about how we elect our politicians.

Britain’s socialist Prime Minister Keir Starmer recently announced that his country would lower the voting age to 16.

In this country, the Longest Ballot Committee, which wants to put an end to the first-past-the-post system of electing Members of Parliament, has flooded ridings with hundreds of independent candidates. Having done so in Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s Ottawa-Carleton riding during the general election, it’s doing the same in the Aug. 18 Battle River-Crowfoot byelection in Alberta, where Poilievre is hoping to be returned to Parliament.

Elections Canada has wisely adopted a form of write-in ballot to avoid printing more than 200 candidates’ names on the ballot. While the protest promo

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