{"id":1421,"date":"2010-05-09T11:13:54","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T15:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2010-05-09T11:13:54","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T15:13:54","slug":"electoral-reform-reminder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=1421","title":{"rendered":"Electoral Reform Reminder"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article<\/a> (thanks Charles Adler for the link) is another reminder for me about how easily our own Canadian electoral system can be manipulated. \u00a0I have brought this up several times with friends, family, political allies, MPs, Ministers, etc. \u00a0Yet still our system is broken.<\/p>\n

You see in Canada you are supposed to be a Canadian Citizen to vote. \u00a0Yet our system has so many ways in it that let non Canadians in to vote illegally.<\/p>\n

1) \u00a0We have a vouching system. \u00a0This is when one person has no identification but has a friend who IS on the voter’s list there to vouch for them. \u00a0This helps create problem 2.<\/p>\n

2) \u00a0Once you have been vouched for, you are now on the voting list. \u00a0This means the next election, you can then vouch for up to two people who may not be Canadian citizens. \u00a0This means that technically one Canadian could vouch for two friends. \u00a0One election later, those two non eligible voters could each vouch for two friends. (now we are at 4 ineligble voters). \u00a0And then in the third election, we are at potentially 8 ineligible voters. \u00a0This reminds me of the old shampoo commercial. \u00a0And you’ll tell two friends. \u00a0And they’ll tell two friends, and so on.<\/p>\n

3) \u00a0The glue that binds all these together is the fact that you do not need to show proof of citizenship to vote. \u00a0This is simply ridiculous.<\/p>\n

The law says you need to be a Canadian citizen yet it offers several ways for non Canadians to sneak in on the system. \u00a0In m y opinion, \u00a0you should be required to have your citizenship card or passport or a photo ID\/Birth Certificate combination to vote.<\/p>\n

That’s it. \u00a0That’s all. \u00a0Anything less to me is unacceptable.<\/p>\n

The only way this can really be achieved is to either a) bring back enumeration or b) scrap the voter’s list completely and restart with the current list of provincial birth certificates and federal citizenship and passport lists. \u00a0Then EVERYone voting should be required to show proof of citizenship to get a ballot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This article (thanks Charles Adler for the link) is another reminder for me about how easily our own Canadian electoral system can be manipulated. \u00a0I have brought this up several times with friends, family, political allies, MPs, Ministers, etc. \u00a0Yet still our system is broken. You see in Canada you are supposed to be a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,44,46,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-shinanigans","category-officiallyscrewed","category-patriotism","category-politics-federal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}