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The Moment. In this regular feature until Election Day, the National Post captures a telling moment in time from the 2015 campaign.

As a Canada obsessed with strategic voting prepared to go to the polls, Green Party Leader Elizabeth May appeared on television to plead with voters to stop.

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“That’s slaughtering us; it’s disastrous,” she said during a Friday morning appearance on CTV’s Canada AM. “In a democracy, you should cast your ballot for what you want.”

It is a noble sentiment that May has touted for years. But of course — just as it was with the Conservative majority that May so vociferously opposes — it’s also what keeps allowing parties to secure majorities with only a fraction of the popular vote.

“Don’t make a statement, make a difference!” reads the motto of StrategicVoting.ca, one of several “Anything But Conservative” websites that have cropped up in 2015.

Of the 141 swing ridings identified by the site, only one, Dufferin-Caledon, has a Green as the anti-Harper. In the others, Green voters are urged to abandon their support in favour of the Liberals or the NDP.