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Canada Votes - Live Update - Liberals Win - LIB 158 CON 119 NDP 24 BQ 33 GRN 4 PPC 0
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Yeah, you can't just show up to a random poll with a driver's license and vote. You have to show your voter card, at your assigned polling place, and your name will be scratched off of a list.
I was the only person at my polling place this morning (around 10am) but a dozen or so more filed in as I was leaving.
Quoting: coyoteblue Even if you don't have a voter card, all you have to do is show up at any polling station with a piece of mail addressed to you that falls within that polling station's coverage and a driver's license and someone willing to vouch for you. The scam is that they show up in groups with translators who vouch for them and accompany them to the booth to make sure they vote the right way. They get offered perks for voting. All of the parties do it. They call it "get out the vote". I've heard of that in the US, not here. But who knows... I'm not insinuating. I saw it happen in 2004 in Burnaby. I was a scrutineer for the NDP. I wasn't a member, but a friend was supervising scrutineers for the party and someone bailed, so I stepped in. I watched minivans arrive with immigrants and translators. I watched the translators vouch for these people, and I saw as one guy went to take out his drivers license that his SIN card had the first three numbers that are reserved for temporary residents. I lodged a complaint with the Elections Officer and was told they are not supposed to require proof of citizenship. My friend arrived to check on things and I told him what happened, I was pretty mad by then and they threatened to remove me if I didn't behave. Not one of the other scrutineers backed me up, in fact they treated me like I was a kid at his first rodeo. I wanted to push things after election day, but I wasn't a party member and my friend (actually make that Ex friend) said well, we lost the poll but won the seat, so it doesn't matter. I've been trying to wake people up ever since, but nobody wants to hear it or believe it, and it's probably a lot more widespread than it ever was before. Today I voted with a voter card and an expired drivers license, as I said in a previous post. Well then, I guess we're no different than the US in that department. They most definitely should require proof of citizenship. No proof, no vote.
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