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Canada Elections Act Amended To Close Rural Loophole

Posted on Saturday, November 03 at 12:45 by N Say
"The legislative solution introduced (Friday) will ensure that legitimate voters will be able to exercise their fundamental democratic right to vote,'' Van Loan said in a prepared statement. Earlier this year Bill C-31 (the Canada Elections Verification of Residence Act) was introduced to provide a better method by which individuals could identify themselves when casting a ballot. The legislation, which came into law in June, required voters to provide civic addresses for the purpose of identification and excluded those with a post office box or rural route. The purpose of the bill was to address concerns of voter fraud. ... http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/story.html?id=8f9d87a2-d309-40cd-b77f-c14e6cdf3fd8

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  1. by Rural
    Sat Nov 03, 2007 10:07 pm
    Not trusting any of the clowns in Ottawa to get this right I checked the Bill ( <a href="http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?DocId=3094157&Language=e&Mode=1&File=27">http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?DocId=3094157&Language=e&Mode=1&File=27</a> ) it is improved but you had better be sure that the address that Elections Canada has on the voters list is the same as at least one piece of identification that you can produce or its going to be a hassle. If the voters list gives a civic address that does not appear on your identification then you could be in for a hassle. 132(a) refers to the photo ID, 143 (b) refers to the ALTERNATE documents which are to be specified by Chief Electoral Officer of Canada which has not YET been done. The bottom line is that if you are NOT on the electors list or the address is incorrect you had better get that corrected if you want to vote. That said it seems that provided the Chief Electoral Officer specifies reasonable alternate documents the problem is covered, in point of fact this is much as it was before, little has changed.<br />
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    Extracts of some the changes below:-<br />
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    (3.1) If the address contained in the piece or pieces of identification provided under subsection (2) or paragraph (3)(a) does not prove the elector’s residence but is consistent with information related to the elector that appears on the list of electors, the elector’s residence is deemed to have been proven.<br />
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    Section 143-<br />
    provides the piece or pieces of identification referred to in paragraph 143(2)(a) or (b), respectively, which piece or one of which pieces must contain either an address that proves his or her residence or an address that is consistent with information related to him or her that appears on the list of electors, and<br />
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    The Act as it exists now can be viewed at <a href="http://www.elections.ca/content.asp?section=loi&document=index&dir=leg/fel&lang=e&textonly=false">http://www.elections.ca/content.asp?section=loi&document=index&dir=leg/fel&lang=e&textonly=false</a><br />
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    <p>---<br>When you are up to your ass in alligators it is difficult to remember that the initial objective was to drain the swamp



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