Mr. Kingsley, I understand that. The point I was trying to make is that, thankfully, you do a verification and you have done that, so you have been able to screen out 173,000 people.
So then my question was, are you confident that giving the returning officers the authority at the actual polls--advance polls, special polls, regular voting day polls--to question a person and require that this person swear an oath or sign a written affidavit will be sufficient to screen out non-citizens who inadvertently might want to vote?
I'm not talking about someone who consciously knows they're a non-citizen and knows they're not allowed to vote and is willing to commit a fraud on the electoral system. I'm just asking if you are satisfied that it would be sufficient, or do you think that if there is a reasonable doubt as to the person's eligibility, that level of proof should be higher than just a sworn affidavit? It might be the birth certificate plus other pieces of identification, or it might be the passport, for instance, or the citizenship card, so that if there is a reasonable doubt that a person is a citizen, or if there's a reasonable doubt that the person is 18 years old, one might require some secure piece of identification that actually gives the birth date.