Voting cards are integral ID to helping people prove their address in our culture. The Conservative party is wrong.
10 years ago you could have multiple documents confirming you address - an envelope with your name and address. Even then I had to rely on my voting card because we had recently moved within our riding. Passports don't include addresses and Alberta photo ID doesn't guarantee an up to date address. The only people afraid of voters are ones who would get voted out if they were unable to tilt the system in their favour. Elections that are representative just have larger volumes of voters along similar percentages.
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4658692
You may want to look at the actual ID requirements put forth by Elections Canada.
ReplyDeleteFirst a drivers license or other forms of provincial or territorial ID.
Or two pieces of identification including bills, library cards, bank statements, hydro bills etc.,
Or go to the poll with someone who is from the district and is willing to vouch for you, then you swear an oath saying who you say you are.
Its pretty simple
elections.ca - Elections Canada Online | ID to Vote
A better way of committing fraud to win elections is to first identify people who are unlikely to vote for you or your candidate. Then you call them and give them the incorrect information on where to vote. These voters would show up at the wrong location and will be unable to vote for your opponents. This is made easy with automated diallers.
ReplyDeleteGene Chiu that is assuming that your source is the only information about it. If I remember right voter information is everywhere. The person would have to be very isolated or very stupid. And as research shows that is not necessarily the case for self identified liberals.
ReplyDeleteLarry Lyons I meant the two pieces of paper with address. Many people don't get bills or bank statements in the mail anymore, my library card has a bar code and my signature and I have 2 because I lost then found it. I've lived here long enough that the people working the polling station recognize me. That the good part about hiring people from the community to work them.
ReplyDeleteThe answer to the headline is: because it is the nature of bullshit advocacy that the advocate never concede in reaction to rational discourse.
ReplyDeleteAndres Soolo
ReplyDeletePersonally I think that the reason why it is an issue is that claims of voter fraud are also very effective in suppressing voting in certain groups. Make obtaining the cards far more onerous limits those who can vote, as those who may find it difficult to get the cards, also tend to be those who vote for the NDP or Liberals. Living here in the US I've seen it numerous times, in Tennessee, Georgia and Texas for instance when Republican controlled state legislatures used onerous voter ID requirements along with gerrymandering and other measures to suppress the voter turnout.
A recent study, published by The Journal of Politics analyzed voter data from the elections starting in 2006 to 2014, and the impact of strict voter identification laws on minorities. They gathered data from Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES) and focused on 11 states with strict voter identification laws. The study found that in the states where these strict voter ID laws are implemented, minorities and left-leaning voters, suffered lower voter turnout rates than states who had less restrictive voter ID laws.
Hajnal, Zoltan; Lajevardi, Nazita; Nielson, Lindsay. "Voter Identification Laws and the Suppression of Minority Votes". The Journal of Politics. 79 (2): 363–379.