It's true, Mr. Neufeld reports, I believe, 50,000 irregularities or errors. I think he calls them serious errors that may constitute irregularities.
Again, I'll point out that this was thoroughly examined by the courts in Etobicoke and the court at the end of the day said that most of these errors go to procedures, bookkeeping, but there was no reason to doubt the quality of electors. Most of the vouching is taking place in some closed facilities, as you mentioned, but even there we have to appreciate that in the 50,000, it is an irregularity for the nurse at the nursing home to vouch for a resident of the nursing home. That would be considered as a serious error in the scheme of Mr. Neufeld. Again, when the court looked at that, they saw no reasons to invalidate the vote.
In many cases what we see is that in the poll book.... It's a rather complex procedure. When a mother comes in with her son who is voting for the first time and the son doesn't have ID, the mother is allowed to vouch for the son, but in the poll book what you will see reflected, after the officer has validated the ID of the mother, is the officer will simply mark “mother” as opposed to the full name. This is considered a serious error because it's not consistent with the requirements of the act. Again, is there any reason to doubt that the mother was properly identified? No. Is there any reason to believe that the son was not eligible to vote? No. Was there an improper recording in the poll book? Yes, but not enough to warrant an invalidation of that vote.
These are the vast majority of situations we are talking about and Mr. Neufeld is talking about when he talks about irregularities. I hope you will call Mr. Neufeld to explain all these provisions.