Canada Elections Act  . Elections Canada provided people with a kind of voting card. In buildings with 64 apartments, voter information cards were left in the lobby, just like any ad-bag, newspaper or flyer from Canadian Tire or Pharmaprix. Some people were literally going to every apartment building picking up

Procedure and House Affairs committee   a problem that surfaced particularly during this campaign. In terms of Canada Post, we pay first-class postage rates for the voter information cards. There is no voter card in this country. It's a voter information card. It's information that is provided. That card does not entitle one

Procedure and House Affairs committee   get a voter information card that says I am Laurie Hawn and I live in Upper Rubber Boot and that I can go vote at poll whatever, if I show up with that card, walk in, and give them the card, they don't ask me any other questions. I don't show any identification. I get my ballot

Procedure and House Affairs committee   that an effective process be established by Elections Canada and that the political parties be consulted with regard to that process. The next issue is voter identification cards, Mr. Chair. The misuse of voter information cards is quite simply out of control. We have reports of neighbourhoods

Procedure and House Affairs committee   on that. Their distribution by Canada Post in apartment buildings poses a problem. Letter carriers simply take the cards and leave them at the entrance, so that anyone who goes to a polling station with the voter information cards of all the residents in his building can vote. If we had the date of birth

Procedure and House Affairs committee  , at the entrance, where the mail boxes are, we see a series of voter information cards in the blue recycling bin or else outside scattered across the lawn. In the 2004 election, I brought back approximately 150 to the office of the returning officer. You know that's the preferred method

Procedure and House Affairs committee   information card is used as a voter identification card. What means are available to the deputy returning officer to not only prove the individual is that individual, but that the individual in fact has the right to vote in terms of citizenship?

Procedure and House Affairs committee   of them has been approved by them. We made it very clear again at the 2006 general election that the voter information card is a voter information card, not a voter identification card.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I don't want to take up the time of the committee, but while we're on voter identification cards I would like a comment on Canada Post's handling of the voter information card. We've heard from various folks that these voter information cards are dumped en masse in apartment

Procedure and House Affairs committee   be to incorporate those voter information cards in an envelope addressed to each elector.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you. I thank Madam Picard for bringing up the idea of voter information—and other members are okay to bring that up again—but before we move past the voter information card, I'd like to ask the panel about two problems that have been presented. One is, as pointed out

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you very much, Monsieur Godin. This is a good discussion to carry on later. We're going to enter round two. I suppose a comment might be made that it's up to this committee to decide what identification would be required at the polls. The voter information card

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We will make sure that happens. We have already dealt with 2.2, 2.4, and 2.5. On 2.6, “Authority to Determine When to Send Out Voter Information Cards”, I will read this: The Chief Electoral Officer seeks greater flexibility in determining when to issue Voter Information

Procedure and House Affairs committee   identification cards.... Isn't that an information word? It's a voter information card, my apology. ...being used by persons not eligible to vote.... We've all been through this. A date of birth could be used as a cross-reference. I think the committee is quite aware of where

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We are told that the Chief Electoral Officer has expressed concern about discarded voter information cards being used by persons not eligible to vote. We're doing a lot of micromanagement now, but let's tell him that these dates are not to be put on the information cards mailed