

There is virtually no evidence that anyone who has voted in a riding with a “longest ballot” was ever confused.
Bruce Fanjoy won in the Carleton riding with 50.9% of the vote — a majority. The highest vote count for the any of the independent candidates was a whopping 57 votes — out of 86 060 total votes. That’s a whopping 0.06% of the vote.
In fact if you count only those candidates running either as an independent OR as “Not Affiliated” (so taking out anyone running for a party, including the Rhino Party and Marijuana Party candidates who did worse than a handful of the independent candidates), the longest ballot candidates IN TOTAL had a massive 0.99% of the vote. They didn’t even crack 1%.
Honestly, there are no electoral shenanigans to get worked up over here. The outcome was overwhelming, and Bruce Fanjoy (Liberal) didn’t seem to have any problems getting a plurality of votes to win.
Manager at a big tech company here. I’ve been fortunate to have been WFH since 2012, and my team is a diverse set of amazing developers from all across North America. Our company has started taking the position that new hires should be in office, and anyone close enough to an office should be in office — so I’ve informed my staff that if any of them gets any sort of demand they return to office to let me know so I can help void that as quickly as possible. I won’t be in their office (I don’t even live in a city that has an office…), and neither will any of their coworkers, so having any of them report to an office would be purely performative.
We’re developers. Many are somewhat introverted, and all are amazing with technology and already know how to use online technologies to work and collaborate together. I’ll continue to fight tooth-and-nail to keep them from having to return to an office (unless they want to).
Fortunately I have the support of my VPs above me. They know my team is very high performance with tons of institutional knowledge and don’t want to upset the apple cart.
There are those of us out there with some power who are doing what we can to fight the good fight!