OT: Get out there and vote!
Max Blanco
blanco-S8qYAnHmZTt34ZA5RureAJ4VBq8PJc8F at public.gmane.org
Tue Nov 11 19:53:54 UTC 2003
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Drew Hamilton wrote:
> Continuing the off-topic thread, was anyone else upset by the way that the
> vote was handled? I had the following issues with my polling place:
>
> 1) I didn't have to prove that I was a Canadian citizen before they
> let me add myself to the list of eligible electors. All that they
> cared about was that I lived in the building that the polling place
> was. I'd estimate that over 50% of my building's tenants are not
> Canadian citizens, so that was probably an important thing to check.
I think that the element of trust is a legacy of the British system.
Thank God for the British, I think; otherwise I think that we would have a
police state with National ID cards like the type that I think Federal
Immigration Minister Denis Coderre wants to implement. I think that he is
not your friend.
Should your name not be on the voter's list, I think that you are required
to take an oath to the effect that you are who you say you are and a
qualified elector. I think that you are liable to penalty of perjury if
you are not qualified. I think that this involves a prison sentence.
> 2) When they were searching for my name on the elector list, they told me
> which of my neighbours were on the list
I think that the voters' list is open to public scrutiny, as I think
that it should be.
> 3) After I filled in the voting sheet, I had to hand it back to the
> electoral staff member, who looked it over before putting it in the
> computer. What right does he have to know how I voted?
I think that may be a violation of secrecy; I think that maybe you should
have been given a folder in which to place your ballot. I think that
maybe the clerk should have fed the ballot face down into the machine; I
think that maybe s/he should not have had the opportunity to read your
ballot.
Read <http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/DBLaws/Statutes/English/96m32_e.htm>.
BTW, IANAL.
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