FIRST BALLOT IS UNDER WAY

The voting is under way for the first ballot at the Liberal leadership convention, over an hour behind schedule because of a problem processing the alternate delegates at the convention. Later they will have the candidate speeches and the first ballot results will be known later tonight.

If you're wondering, this is highly unusual for a convention to hold a first ballot during the candidate speeches, but I guess this was the way they did it at the last convention the Liberals held, which was a total Paul Martin coronation. They held the first ballot on Friday night, the night that Bono spoke.

Big news: Stephane Dion has picked up the endorsement of Allan Rock.

All I have to say is this is already more exciting than those American political conventions. The networks will be showing live coverage on TV to see who will crash and burn on stage tonight.