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A 62-year-old luddite says he’s been “forced into the 21st century” by his decision to run for Saskatoon city council.

“And I’m not happy about it,” said Robert Godfrey, a courier driver who recently bought a computer so he could fill out the online forms required for him to be registered as a candidate in Ward 2.

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“I got it last week and it’s been a gong show ever since,” Godfrey said of the new machine.

This will be his third time running for election as the city councillor for Ward 2. He finished last in both 2009 and 2012, each time picking up less than five per cent of the vote.

Godfrey said he will continue to run as long as incumbent Coun. Pat Lorje is on the ballot. Lorje has been on city council for more than two decades. Godfrey said he believes councillors should not be allowed to hold office for more than three terms.

Despite his hatred of computers — he dislikes them so much that he asks his friends to turn their machines off if he goes to their homes — he said he doesn’t like door knocking and plans to run his whole campaign on social media with the help of a “computer geek.”