I have heard people, all too casually and with too much level of detail, talk about it. I believe from my experience that it's not as uncommon as we would hope. There are many ridings, of course, where the result is not close enough for this to be particularly material, but there are many ridings where that's not true.
On the question of a permanent voters list, first of all, as a general proposition I think it's a positive step that we've established a permanent voters list rather than the “hurry up and create one out of nothing” exercise that preceded that. On the other hand, the sources of it and the scrutiny it's given between elections are really quite varied and uneven in their quality. I think it may behoove voters, the parties, the candidates, and the participants in the process to spend more time—or maybe Elections Canada to spend more time—validating and double-checking the information that's there.
I think it's better done this way than it was in the past, but the opportunities for false names or erroneous names to be on the voters list have expanded. I think it's time to spend some time addressing corrective measures.