Election laws in Canada seem to be fairly reasonable regarding ID. Yes it requires a photo id. However if the person does not have an authorized photo id, a medicare card and hydro bill will do (Elections Canada give about 300 examples btw).
But it gets better, if the person cannot produce the requisite items from the second option, the person just needs to get someone else who lives in the riding and will vouch for them. http://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=vot&dir=ids&document=index&lang=e Funny even though there is this very liberal id requirement in Canada, the only cases of elections fraud have been committed by the Conservative Party over the last couple of federal elections. Funny thing is though when these options were brought up they were shot down by republican state legislators. Why? Is it that they're trying to stop voter fraud (the rate btw is less than 100 cases out of millions of votes cast in 2008 - http://www.kansascity.com/2012/08/13/3760122/voter-fraud-found-to-be-rare-survey.html), or is it that they're attempting a barely legitimate voter suppression of those people who are not likely to vote republican. It basically comes down to why do Republicans hate the democratic process so much, and America so much. On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Casey Dougall - Uber Website Solutions <ca...@uberwebsitesolutions.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:08 PM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com>wrote: > >> People pushing these >> laws all admit that they cannot point to any actual historical voting >> fraud to speak of and cannot point to any identifiable fraud that >> would likely be prevented after passage of these laws. >> > > > Florida recount? > > Of course they don't bring that one up. Because that was the most > fraudulent thing I've seen. > > I can only vote once in NYS so unless I had multiple "active" voting > registrations out there I highly doubt that I could be counted twice. So > the only thing out there that could happen is that right before poles > close, someone comes up and signs my name and votes. > > My signature is the only thing required to vote in NY and it happens to be > listed right next to my name. So who knows... It's totally plausible that > someone with the balls to do it is doing so, and without voter ID thatÂ’s > how I'd rig an election. BUT regardless, it would still end up the same as > you would need an insider to find the names of those who didn't vote and > continue to rig their little district. > > I've always thought absentee ballets are rigged so if there was anything > that needs fixing it's the rules around sending those in. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:353781 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
