ms. voter
i voted today. *applause* i have yet to miss voting in an election, thank you very much.
since i moved, i didn't get a yellow card in the mail telling me where to vote. and here comes the complaining..
on the provincial government website there is NO link to the elections website. uh.. hello? isn't that the first place people will look for voting information? not everyone will do a websearch right off the bat. this is a critical day for the ontario government, so why be so.. uninformative about it?
because i didn't have a yellow card, i wasn't on the voters list for the area i live in. obviously. so off i went with my licence to my voting location in order to register. they checked my licence, ASKED ME IF I WAS A CITIZEN, gave me a form to fill out, had me read an oath out loud, and then told me which table to go to vote.. they ASKED me if i was a citizen. why does this seem so wrong? you don't need to be a canadian citizen in order to have a driver's licence. shouldn't they require proof of citizenship? obviously if you're not a citizen, they'll eventually catch you.. but that's a heck of a lot of paperwork to go through for five seconds of work to begin with. how difficult is it to ask that anyone registering bring two pieces of id: one to show residency, the other to show citizenship?
anyway, who did i vote for? NOT TELLING!
since i moved, i didn't get a yellow card in the mail telling me where to vote. and here comes the complaining..
on the provincial government website there is NO link to the elections website. uh.. hello? isn't that the first place people will look for voting information? not everyone will do a websearch right off the bat. this is a critical day for the ontario government, so why be so.. uninformative about it?
because i didn't have a yellow card, i wasn't on the voters list for the area i live in. obviously. so off i went with my licence to my voting location in order to register. they checked my licence, ASKED ME IF I WAS A CITIZEN, gave me a form to fill out, had me read an oath out loud, and then told me which table to go to vote.. they ASKED me if i was a citizen. why does this seem so wrong? you don't need to be a canadian citizen in order to have a driver's licence. shouldn't they require proof of citizenship? obviously if you're not a citizen, they'll eventually catch you.. but that's a heck of a lot of paperwork to go through for five seconds of work to begin with. how difficult is it to ask that anyone registering bring two pieces of id: one to show residency, the other to show citizenship?
anyway, who did i vote for? NOT TELLING!
posted by bacon at 6:42 p.m.
1 Comments:
I actually prefer them just asking - otherwise, they might end up disenfranchising alot of people who aren't evil; just lazy, or unprepared. Real voter fraud is not likely to be perpetrated by people just wandering into a polling station and voting multiple times. A much bigger problem is when aggressive enforcement of rules like this makes it impossible for many people who should be allowed to vote to do so. For instance, the disenfranchisement of poor blacks in Florida during the past two elections by republicans who claimed they were trying to prevent voter fraud, when really they were just trying to keep republicans in power by stopping blacks from voting.
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