Procedure and House Affairs committee  Would you agree that Bill C-76 will result in more voter participation, that the provisions are in there to increase voter participation with things like accessibility, voter information cards, and the like? Would you agree with that?

Procedure and House Affairs committee   the Chief Electoral Officer to authorize the use of a voter information card as identification; permitting vouching as a means of identity and residence; making it easier for Canadians to apply for and obtain special ballot kits; reducing the wait times at regular and advance polls

Procedure and House Affairs committee  In those terms, we talked a bit more about how the voter information cards can increase accessibility, but I'd like to talk a little more about the education component, because I know that's one of the components that caused some concern for your organization as well. You

Procedure and House Affairs committee  . Even with vouching, conceivably, if a poll has 250 electors, the person across the street from you, who is your neighbour and could vouch for you, truly cannot vouch for you because they're not in the same polling station. The voter information card is one piece of identification

Procedure and House Affairs committee  , I've long been a fan of the voter information card, as it's technically called. I like to call it voter identification card—I'm putting my bias on the table—because I think it should be used as ID. Quite frankly, as you and others point out, this is really and truly the only

Procedure and House Affairs committee   Elections Act, which made it more difficult for the Chief Electoral Officer to communicate with Canadians about the electoral process and their right to vote; stripped the Chief Electoral Officer of his ability to authorize the voter information card as a means for proving an elector's

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Very good. With respect to the voter information cards, you've commented that, in your view, there is absolutely no issue with respect to those being used for fraudulent voting. For me, in particular, I look at seniors and students, because they are probably the two groups

Procedure and House Affairs committee   were quite fearful at the time that, in many cases, changes being made in the Fair Elections Act would mean that a lot of people out there would be in a vulnerable state when it came to voting, with things like the voter information card and so on and so forth. What was so

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I will not be quite as brief as Mr. Reid. That's probably not said very often either, I don't imagine. If you feel you need to cut me off and put me back on the list again, do so. The voter information card has come up a couple of times. There are obviously some differences

Procedure and House Affairs committee   of these cases were about identification, because the voter information card was not used for identification purposes, except in 2011 for the general election, and we had no issues there with regard to the voter information card being used as a piece of ID.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No. If that's what I said, then it's mistaken. Under the use of the voter information card as proof of address, the elector needs to have another piece of ID and needs to make sure that the voter information card has the same name on it as the other piece of ID. That is what I

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You gave me a stat just a minute ago. You said that 172,000 people couldn't vote because they didn't have identification for whatever reason. Can you tell me how many addresses change on that voter information card from the time it goes out until the day advance polls and voting

Procedure and House Affairs committee  In a declaration, that makes sense. We've talked quite a bit about the voter information card. I'm a big supporter of that, and I realize that the voter information card is not only beneficial to seniors, who often get the attention on this, but also with respect to students

Procedure and House Affairs committee   turned away at the polls. That's the only hard data that we have on this matter that we can affirm. Let's be clear. The use of the voter information card at the federal level has occurred in the by-election part of 2011, and in 2011 in specific circumstances. In those circumstances

Procedure and House Affairs committee   impact of voter information cards, in my riding there are 130 or something towns, and the largest town is only 1,300 people. I'm not saying all my riding, don't get me wrong. I'm sure the Knights of Columbus is free, but nevertheless, I think maybe we should, if we're going somewhere