Posted on 09/19/2021 7:45:58 AM PDT by Kriggerel
We haven’t developed that system yet because it completely undermines the core principle of a secret ballot.
Voting first started as voters gathering at opposite ends of a room or street and then being counted by representatives of both sides or parties. Everyone knew how each person voted. If you took a candidate’s liquor and voted for the other guy everyone would know.
Later ballot boxes had glass sides, again so everyone there knew how you voted. Each party having different colored ballots. Voters were expected to keep their promises to candidates. To a certain extent candidates were expected to keep their promises as well.
The secret ballot was supposed to eliminate the buying, selling or trading favors for votes. How well that has turned out...
Right?
Reading the regime in power is printing and “distributing”
lotsa extra absentee mail in ballots.
Also, reading some polling places will need proof of vax to vote.
Glad I voted i person at an advance poll
BTW - Everybody has to show an ID to vote... No ID, no vote unless you can produce two people to confirm your identity.
Where is this documented? I would like to show it on Facebook.
You have to produce an ID to vote in Canada... No ifs, ends, or buts.
Who is eligible to vote?
To vote in the federal election, you must:
be a Canadian citizen
be at least 18 years old on election day
prove your identity and address
https://www.elections.ca/content2.aspx?section=vote&document=index&lang=e
If you don’t have ID, you can still vote if you declare your identity and address in writing and have someone who knows you and who is assigned to your polling station vouch for you.
The voucher must prove their identity and address using option 1 or option 2. A person can vouch for only one person (except in long-term care facilities).
I'm not so sure about that. I always thought the secret ballot was intended to prevent government officials from retributing against the people who didn't vote for them.
No idea what is going to happen tomorrow but likely Turdough is back or there’ll be a tool as PM. Tune in tomorrow same bat poop crazy time same bat poop crazy channel.
I agree with you ...
I don’t care if votes are delivered by carrier pigeons as long as every vote is a single legitimate vote submitted by an American citizen!!!!!
One of the things I note is that now in Canada, Hockey is now called a “Redneck” sport and Canadians are now embracing more soccer and basketball. I must say their soccer team is looking pretty good, they’ll probably make the World Cup.
FU,BBC!
I have voted in every election —federal, state, and local— since 1976 by going on election day to my friendly precinct polling place. I have never found anything about that to be difficult, and don’t know why that would be difficult for most people, with a few exceptions.
Canada still used paper ballots only in Federal elections with no machines at any stage of the process. Ballot distribution is tightly controlled. Each electoral district may have hundreds of polls representing a part of the district (often one location will have many polls). Each poll is provided a locked and sealed ballot box with a specified number of ballots enough for the estimated number of voters, plus some extras in case of a spoiled ballot. On election day two government employed poll workers, in the presence of scrutineers appointed by each candidate (if they choose), opens the seal and box, empties out the contents, and everyone knows the number of blank ballots. The empty box is reseated and locked. As voters arrive they must show photo ID, there name is checked off a list (compiled from federal income tax rolls). If they are not on the list, they need proof they live in the electoral district. The voter is handed a ballot initialled by the poll worker, and return it to the poll worker who tears off a strip. The voter is handed the ballot to put in the ballot box. Once the vote is ended the poll workers, again in full view of the scrutineers, open the box and dump out the ballots. There is an initial count of the number of ballots in the box which is compared to the number of strips, and the number of names checked off the lists. Then each ballot is unfolded and shown to all the scrutineers, who each keep their own tally sheets. Once everyone confirms the count is accurate, the poll workers fill out and sign the official reporting sheet showing number of ballots, number of ballots used, number of spoiled ballots, and number cast for each candidate.
There is a small risk of abuse of absentee ballots but Canada does not mail out unsolicited ballots. They must be requested by a voter. All in all the system works and is bullet proof against the widespread mail-in ballot abuse and machine manipulation (double counting and the counting of unaccounted for “suitcase” ballots that we saw in Georgia.
“I always thought the secret ballot was intended to prevent government officials from retributing against the people who didn’t vote for them.”
You don’t even have to vote in the US to have your vote counted...the democrats will vote for you.
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