Election Briefs Make it a Doris Day CBC-TV’S satirical comedy show, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, has entered the federal election cam- paign with a website effort aimed at Alliance lea- der Stockwell Day. It’s based on an Alliance platform that if elec- ted, it would permit nation-wide referenda. The party is downplaying earlier suggestions a question could go to a referendum if three per cent of vo- ters, or roughly 350,000 people, first sign a sup- porting petition. 22 Minutes has adopted that suggestion by ask- ing for 350,000 peaple to sign up on its website to force Stockwell Day to change his first name to Doris. You can find the website at WWW. 22minttes.com There’s no indication, yet, if other leaders will be asked to change their name to Rock Hudson who starred in many movies opposite Doris Day. Behind the scenes AS WAS the case in the 1997 federal election, a lot of political appointees working for the NDP provincial government have taken leave to work on various campaigns. In Skeena, NDP candidate Larry Guno’s cam- paign manager is Thelma Oliver, an assistant to NDP cabinet minister Sue Hammell in charge of multiculturalism, immigration and the public ser- vice. Meanwhile, Liberal Rhoda Witherly’s campaign is being run by Prince Rupert lawyer Don Silver- sides who also ran her 1997 campaign. Alliance candidate Andy Burton’s effort is being run by Smithers businessman Barrie Carter, an ex- perienced campaigner dating back to the early days of Reform in the northwest. Long distance feeling MODERN DAY election campaigns rely on phone banks to supply candidates and strategists with in- formation from voters. Calling hundreds of people gives them an idea of support and clues as to what issues voters feel are important. It used to be that phone banks were manned by local volunteers but they’ve since been replaced by operations run by party officials away from the riding. Last week, workers at Vancouver-based phone bank were calling around to seeking the amount of support for NDP candidate Larry Guno. And people from Toronto were doing the same on behalf of Liberal candidate Rhoda Witherly. There was one hitch with the Witherly effort. At least ane of the people from Toronto was calling her “Rhonda”. Voter decline forecast here THE VOTING AGE population in Skeena has dropped from the 1997 federal election, indicate figures prepared ‘py Elections Canada. As of last week, there were 47,000 on a4 preliminary voters list — just about 3,000 fewer people who were lis- ted as eligible ta vote in 1997. Adding to the decline is the return of approximately 1,600 voter registration cards, says Skeena riding chief electoral officer Bruce Forward who is based in Prince Rupert. ; Forward’s careful to point out that the returned cards don’t mean the people have disappeared as they could be living in other ridings across the country, ' And he does say a revised Hst coming out this week supplemented by the final count of those who register at the polls on Nov. 27 might bring back the total to near ° the 1997 level. But overall Forward says the downturn in the econ- , omy here will have an impact. “There are fewer electoral voters by a couple of thousand,” he said. “I know here in Prince Rupert there are apartment blocks that are 40 per cent to 50 per cent vacant so cards sent there are going to people who lived there three and a half years ago but don’t anymore,” Forward added. The 1997 final list tally of 49,944 was itself below the 50,500 people that were on the voters list for the federal election of 1993. ‘ Just over 63 per cent of eligible voters cast ballots in 1997, about the same as did in 1993, But those figures were off compared to the 1988 fed- eral election which had a turn out of 77 per cent. Hallsor second in Victoria riding . FORMER TERRACE resident Bruce Hallsor is running a solid second in his attempt as a Canadian Alliance can- didate to unseat federal Liberal cabinet minister David Anderson in Victoria. An opinion poll by the International Fund for Animal Welfare gives Hallsor 24.6 per cent of the yole com- pared to 31.2 per cent for front runner Anderson and 13.2 per cent for third place NDPer David Turner. Also running is realtor Chuck Beyer on behalf of the Marijuana party. OF the 500 people contacted between Nov. 5 and Nav, 12, 19 per cent said they didn’t know who they would support. 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