Friday, October 17, 2008

You know the Cons have gone over the line when...

...even John Gormley slams their efforts made to make voting more difficult:
(A)s Elections Canada tried to address voting security, if the reports of dozens of people being turned away from polling stations for lack of identification are any indication, they might have gone too far. If someone is not on the voters' list, some tough standards may be needed. But for people already on the list who show up to vote with a voters' card, why not make one generic piece of ID suffice? It's highly improbable that a fraudulent voter could steal a voters' card from the mailbox and also happen to swipe an ID with a matching name.
Not that I agree entirely with Gormley when it comes to "tough standards" for voters not on a list, as that figures to make matters even worse for transient voters who are far too easily excluded. But it's certainly worth pointing out that the Cons' suppression efforts aren't even supported by their media base - and working to ensure that as many of them as possible are reversed by the next federal election.

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