Anyway, we had an election up here on 27 November, 2000. I wasn't terribly thrilled at the prospect of having to go to the polls 3.5 years after I had last voted, and although I disliked the incumbent sorta left-wing party (and couldn't vote for them), I was less fond of the opposition right-wing party (and wouldn't vote for them). So I did a very passive-aggressive thing, and voted for an alternative right-wing party in the hopes I'd split the right-wing vote enough to let the incumbents squeak through. This isn't the ideal solution, but since the Libertarian Party of Canada has apparently decided to practice what it preaches by becoming very small and disappearing, I didn't really have much choice.

CBC's Web site cratered around 1930 PST (proof that they need to learn a thing or two about scalability and reliability), so I switched to the Globe and Mail's coverage around that time. My election returns, from Victoria, were slow coming in and I wasn't sure whether the Globe and Mail was declaring people as the winners, so I decided to pop over to a riding where I knew someone had been elected -- Calgary Southeast, the riding where I grew up, and where my parents still live.

This is what I saw:

Now, I'm not saying the Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance was doing anything wrong, but.. those numbers seem a little.. strange.