Privilege   to outright court challenges and controversies, which only further undermine the confidence Canadians have in our democratic electoral system. Voter information cards are similar to vouching, in that the pilot practice of using voter information cards as identification to vote is also

Procedure and House Affairs committee   of the voter information card, the VIC, as one of the documents that could be used to establish the elector's address. We should keep in mind that it is only since 2007 that the law imposes on electors the obligation to provide evidence of their identity as well as of their address before

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Mr. Mayrand, the problem with there being a lack of integrity to the voter information card and to the address list and the database on which it's based is not something new. It predates your tenure as the Chief Electoral Officer. I raised this matter with your predecessor. I've

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Don't you agree that means potentially if I were not an honest person, this would indicate that I am not—that the card is literally useless? In fact, with regard to the second example I gave, isn't it a problem when someone is actually told on their voter information card

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Briefly, the accuracy rate of the voter information card after revision stands at 93%, so there's still 7% that may have incorrect information on them. In the case of your particular situation, when you look at files, you will find that we sometimes use different names

Procedure and House Affairs committee   that electors can rely on to establish their address. There is no evidence, again, that the driver's licence is more up to date than the voter information card. Again, if you look at the data that's available, you will see that during an election campaign, during the calendar period, you

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Voter information cards, VICs.

Procedure and House Affairs committee   live there, who had been visited by officials, who had been issued voter information cards.... Would anyone dispute that the nurse is a proper person to attest to who lives in the residence? Again, this is an irregularity, but there is no reason to believe that any of the votes

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The legislation authorizes Elections Canada to establish the list of acceptable forms of identification. Following the first election where the new identification rules were in place, we did a test and we used the voter information card in some very specific places

Procedure and House Affairs committee   that occurred in the last election. You were quite clear on this in your presentation, but I still have some questions about the voter information cards. Can you confirm that you or Elections Canada have not recommended that voter information cards no longer be accepted?

Procedure and House Affairs committee   given. I've been troubled by some of your testimony earlier when we talked about both vouching and the voter information cards. In the case of vouching, you talk about there being an approximate number, 120,000. There was a sample done of some. Certainly when you look

Democratic Reform  Mr. Speaker, top election experts were crystal clear yesterday that the minister's bill is based on make-believe and fearmongering. His plan to unilaterally end all use of the voter information card is not based on any evidence of voter fraud whatsoever. In 2011, 73

Business of Supply   incredibly unfair. First, it engages in the result, and now, because that result is so clearly known, by intention, of voter suppression. The primary devices for this would be getting rid of the voter identification methods of vouching and the use of voter information cards

Business of Supply   not like about the bill, the voter information card and the vouching system, I cannot see how these things affect seniors voting in residences. In the last election, there was a case that went before the Supreme Court, Opitz v. Wrzesnewskyj, in which the issue arose of the people who

Business of Supply  , people in long-term convalescent homes, and students on university and college campuses, to see whether the voter information card would both facilitate the voter process on election day and serve to enfranchise people having a very hard time showing address as one of two pieces of ID