Canadian Voting Irregularities: Sound Familiar?

This below appears to be only one of several troubling developments in the pending Canadian election.

According to Student Vote’s homepage, "In less than two years, the program has reached over 700,000 students."

If your son or daughter came home from school last week to tell you that they voted on official Canada Election ballots, they’re not kidding.

Ballots marked by students in Canadian classrooms were bona fide Elections Canada ballots.

More at Small Dead Animals - with updates:

For some time, there have been rumors of election irregularities in Edmonton Centre. At an all candidates meeting with Elections Canada on January 4, 2006, it was revealed that two buildings had been struck from the electoral rolls because they were not residences. In reality, these buildings were both mailbox stores.

Several days later, the Laurie Hawn campaign identified a third non-residence building which sells mail boxes and reported it to Elections Canada.

A few days ago, the Laurie Hawn campaign was alerted, via e-mail, by an Edmonton lawyer that: "Lots of [Anne McLellan] supporters are enumerated at their downtown office address instead of at their houses. One of them was bragging about how many times he could vote liberal (sic) based on the number of leases he had in her riding."

You can keep up on Canadian politics and election coverage at Captains Quarters, too.

Comments

[Cindi in PA]

Happens here also. Although not on the same scale. Just another reason to find a unified registration system for the entire United States. As it is now, each state regulates their own registration requirements. One of the problems being, individual county and local governments are not required to take part. Not yet anyway. Even with a perfect program in place, we will still find those able to get around the system.

[COLUMBO]

.......on both sides